Perhaps he would even acknowledge, though not without reluctance, that constitutional continuity since the eighteenth century has been, for Great Britain and the United States, a great good fortune. And he would readily concede that the seizure of power by Fascists or National Socialists proves that the same means—violence and single party government—are not good in themselves but can be used for abominable ends. But he would reaffirm his faith in one final Revolution, the only authentic one, which would aim not to replace one power by another but to overthrow or at least to humanise all
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