310 The Ideal State 



true that there are at least 4000 medical practitioners in 

 our big industrial centres who never know what it is 

 to have a holiday from the cradle to the grave of their 

 professional life ; who are compelled to work at ex- 

 cessive pressure all their waking hours, with many 

 inroads on what ought to be their sleep, for a bare 

 pittance of £200 to £250 a year. Mr. Lloyd George has 

 at any rate done good to this section of the profession, 

 in that he has brought what is comparative affluence 

 within their reach. Their income will be doubled, and 

 perhaps trebled ; they will be able to work less 

 and enjoy a little leisure ; and the annual holiday will 

 begin to illumine their imagination and bring balm to 

 their souls and health to their bodies. But under a 

 perfected State Medical Service no doctor will be over- 

 wrought : he will not work into decrepitude and 

 senility ; at fifty-five or sixty a pension will enable him 

 to rest from his labours and devote such energies as 

 remain to advise the State for the welfare of the body 

 politic. 



A body of specially selected scientific advisers to be 

 formed, and consulted by the Ministry, when required, 

 and to be final in its decisions, so as to avoid the 

 possibility of too sudden change, potential of great 

 danger to the continuity of the State. 



It is most unlikely that Britain will ever be called 

 upon to face Revolution. Her constitution is broad- 

 based upon the people's will. There has been in the 

 past, there is in the present, and there will continue in 

 the future a gradation of concessions to the demands 

 and needs of the people by the Government. Indeed, 

 we may now say it is truly government of the people, 

 by the people, for the people. It is not at all likely 

 that our Government will ever declare war from no 

 other motive than political exigency, such as has been 

 done by other European powers in the past and may 



