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[The following is an excerpt from Bertrand Russell’s Presidential Address, The Need for Political Scepticism, which was delivered to the Student’s Union of the London School of Economics and Political Science on October 10, 1923.]

One of the peculiarities of the English-speaking world is its immense interest and belief in political parties. A very large percentage of English-speaking people really believe that the ills from which they suffer would be cured if a certain political party were in power. That is a reason for the swing of the pendulum. A man votes for one party and remains miserable; he concludes that it was the other party that was to bring the millennium. By the time he is disenchanted with all parties, he is an old man on the verge of death; his sons retain the belief of his youth, and the see-saw goes on.

Vain hope to make men happy by politics!

Thomas Carlyle

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