Sublime

When returns to violence are high and rising, magnitude means more than efficiency. Larger entities tend to prevail over smaller ones.

To a considerable extent, the machinery was his machinery; he, more than any other individual, had drafted the executive budget system, the departmental consolidation and the hundreds of bills that implemented those constitutional amendments. He, more than any other individual, knew the considerations—constitutional, legal and political—that lay be

And the debate forged in mid-nineteenth-century Britain has shadowed the institution ever since: Is the company essentially a private association, subject to the laws of the state but with no greater obligation than making money, or a public one which is supposed to act in the public interest?

In the future, excessive scale could be not only counterproductive but dangerous. Larger enterprises make more tempting targets. As practitioners of the underground economy demonstrate, one of the secrets of avoiding taxation is to avoid detection.

As Charles Moore told me, ‘she was always thinking, thinking, thinking. “What’s right here? What’s the best? What’s the problem? What’s the solution?” But she didn’t have the philosopher’s sceptical mind or pure intellectualism. She wanted results.’19 It was her strong will, iron morals, and belief in the importance of getting results that steered

Finally, Neave was a crucially influential person among MPs.

Still another likely spur to sterner morality will be the end of entitlements and income redistribution. When the hope of aid for those falling behind is based primarily upon appeals to private individuals and charitable bodies, it will be more important than it has been in the twentieth century that the recipients of charity appear to be morally d

through a combination of self-discipline and sound risk assessment, even when market conditions reverse.

This point about imagination is vital. Disraeli believed it was the guiding political quality.