We are told: this came into existence, not by an act of creation, but as a result of the laws of physics, which have no moral purpose whatever - or indeed any purpose. What we are shown is not merely ‘all the kingdoms of the world’ but the entire universe, in all its colossal extent, reaching backwards and forwards into infinity and beyond the powers of the human mind to grasp except in mathematical equations. “As I see it, the Satan who confronted Jesus during this encounter is the personification of moral relativism, and the materialism which creates it. Lee’s achievement underlines the truth that the key to political success is the creative management of brain-power.”īoris would make a great PM - but he must strike now, On moral relativism

Countless millions of hard-working Asians would love to live there, but the place is too small. That is one reason Singapore is virtually crime-free and a little paradise of old-fashioned virtues. He in turn did not like bead-jangling, hirsute, pot-smoking, guitar-strumming hippies, and all the false philosophies which go with that kind of thing. My criterion is the simple utilitarian one of Jeremy Bentham: who did most to promote the greatest possible happiness of the largest possible number? Top of my list, then, is Lee Kuan Yew, who took over Singapore when it was pretty demoralized and its per capita income less than $100, and transformed it into one of the richest, safest, most orderly and sensible countries in the world. “Only six weeks to go before the end of the century: time to draw up a list of its political success stories. Below are some extracts from his Spectator columns, all of which are available on our archive. He wrote more than forty books, edited the New Statesman from 1965 to 1970, and wrote a column for The Spectator from 1981 to 2009. Urn:oclc:9520368 Republisher_date 20120605041324 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120604105629 Scanner Johnson, the author, journalist and historian, has died at the age of ninety-four. OL14927156W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.11 Pages 842 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 600 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0060912103

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