[benjaminthomas]

Thanks. I was just wondering what the "Then and Now" referred to .... I guess it is kind of "Then" and "Then". :-)

[f.Christian]

"Those of us who began a conservative intellectual renewal about 1950 have grown gray in opposition to liberal dominations and powers. We do not expect ever to be able to doze secure in Lotus-land. We are not yet the passing generation: another twenty years must elapse before my eldest child is as old as I was when I published my first book-and I was then a young writer. So it is not a case of "to you, from failing hands, we throw the torch."