Mr Gladstone

Abstract

The late twentieth century would be labelled a somewhat cynical age, but in a recently published book entitled Faith and Politics Lord Eccles had advanced a challenging thesis. It is that on all the evidence of history man has been proved to be so essentially fallible that he can only be saved from himself by the admission of a standard of external Values. If, he argues, man is not willing to use this measure (and that which he chooses is the yardstick of the Christian teaching), then he will be so erratic in his behaviour that his future will at best be one of economic and social confusion and at worst one of self-destruction.