Excerpt from Church and Nation: Or Wealth With Honor (Including Material to Shew the Need for a Bold Constitutional Advance as the Alter-Native to an Artificial Constitutional Crisis) If, however, under recent leadership, the Unionist Party has been transformed from a collective Church Party into a Liberal Unionist business association of a Liberal type, the position of the present Liberal Party is equally ludicrous. They have thrown away those Old individualistic clothes, which they had worn since the Reformation, and have accepted the corporate collective principle. But, while they are a Party with principles, they are a Party without clothes. And, until they have thrown over-board (from the point of view of Social Reform) that Individualistic Institution, the House Of Com mons, and that fantastic chimera, a non-disciplinary mandate-controlled, socialistic State, and put upon themselves the armour of light, by embodying their collective principles in a corporate disciplinary N eo-catholic Church, the less they appear on public platforms, the better for public decency, and social peace. These are hard sayings, but until it is understood, from Land's End to John of Groat's, that both parties have run off the rails and become, at the end of an Epoch, commercial cliques, there is no chance Of our being able to establish a statesmanlike N eo-catholic Institution for social service, which will rely for its driving-force on Love, and for its funds on generosity, honour, chivalry, and on a bold attempt to create a new environment for Mother and Child. And that it is a truth which will, the writer is confident, be recognised by none more gladly than by existing Politicians themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.