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it? What Mr. Llewellyn has succeeded in is a little treason among friends? It’s all for the common material good, isn’t it? What he is doing is to write a profound commentary on the heresy of attempting to build a universal religion on a materialist basis. The attempt manifestly doesn’t work, for religious peace certainly cannot be arrived at by a continuously applied cultivation of discontent.

If one’s ideal is to be continually Better Off, there is no end to the process. As Mr. Llewellyn says in another of his philosophical asides, “the seethe remained, of a people stimulated by advertisements of all kinds into wants beyond their private means, by colonial misadventure into debts beyond their national means, by internecine politicking into a flux beyond the means of the best minds among them to restrain, much less to remedy.”

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it? What Mr. Llewellyn has succeeded in is a little treason among friends? It’s all for the common material good, isn’t it? What he is doing is to write a profound commentary on the heresy of attempting to build a universal religion on a materialist basis. The attempt manifestly doesn’t work, for religious peace certainly cannot be arrived at by a continuously applied cultivation of discontent.

If one’s ideal is to be continually Better Off, there is no end to the process. As Mr. Llewellyn says in another of his philosophical asides, “the seethe remained, of a people stimulated by advertisements of all kinds into wants beyond their private means, by colonial misadventure into debts beyond their national means, by internecine politicking into a flux beyond the means of the best minds among them to restrain, much less to remedy.”