পাতা:বর্ত্তমান জগৎ দ্বিতীয় ভাগ.pdf/৫৩১

সমবায়-পন্থী ভাবুক কবি জর্জ রাসেল e Agriculture to lay hold of, supervise, and control the operations of Co-operative Societies. The greater the movement grew, the greater became the anxiety of the Mandarins to control it. . . . . This desire of the Mandarins for control, this itch for overlordship over everything which besets the new school of bureaucrats, is theogreatest danger before us in olur path to the Co operative Common-wealth, The greatest voluntary movement Ireland has ever seen is in danger of being eaten up by the state, which Neitzsche rightly called "the coldest of all cold monsters.' . . . . . . If the state, "the coldest of all cold monsters,' is allowed by Irishmen to take control of this work, all the fire of life in it will die out. A state department is sterilised of all beauty of thought. Whoever enters the service of the state has to keep his heart under lock and key. His official duty is to organise the undisputed platitude, and to preact the most material commonplaces. We all know these are necessary duties, but are we to give over our hopes and our ideals also to this benumbing agency ? Is lireland not to have one activity of its children free from the greed of the Mandarin for control P Our supine population has allowed the most gigantic state Machinery to be set up over it that the modern