"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Never Ask the End
"In the Saturday Review of January 7, 1933, the famed belles lettres author James Branch Cabell commented upon Isabel Paterson's latest novel Never Ask the End (1933). Cabell wrote, “Mrs. Paterson has made...a book which any tolerably civilized American must regard, throughout, with a sort of charmed squirming....[H]ere is an honest portrait....Thus and not otherwise, have we lived, from each moment to the next moment, during the most notable generation, it may be, and during the most disastrous generation, it is certain, in the world's history.”"
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