As Year Four of Our Struggle Begins
As 2015 draws to a close, many of us will be looking back over the year, assessing what has been achieved and deciding what new needs to be done if we are to be more successful in 2016, than we have been in the past. This is a time of year for reflection and for resetting our compass, if we have started drifting off course, and it is the same whether we are considering our…
War and the Breed
By Max Musson: On this 100th Anniversary of the start of World War One, the ‘Great War’, I am reminded of a very moving book that I have in my possession written in 1915 by David Starr Jordan, then Chancellor of Leland Stanford University, in which he documents prophetically the tragically dysgenic effects of modern warfare on the populations of Europe. Below, I reproduce adapted slightly, the Foreword to Jordan’s book, written by J.W. Jamieson, which most succinctly summarises…
Sparta – or a cautionary tale.
By Frederick Dixon: As the traveller in southern Greece descends from the uplands of Arcadia into the country of Laconia – the far south-eastern corner of the Greek mainland – he encounters a scene of extraordinary beauty. There, before him in the sun, lies a broad and smiling valley whose pastures and fields lie among vineyards and olive groves, citrus and almond orchards. This is the valley of the slow, green, River Eurotas, a valley…