This is a moral call to arms, a call to revisit the neglected great British tradition, published in a form that is the calligraphic embodiment of those very values. Lord Hailsham forced himself to examine from first principles his own beliefs and contrast them with the modern "operating motivation of mankind" as he sees it. To do so he called upon all the intellectual and spiritual resources he could muster. This book is the result. The book is presented in a facsimile of Lord Hailsham's own handwriting, just as he presented it in manuscript form to his publishers.