DEVELOPING WILL-POWER

foreign trade and our industrial supremacy. It
was not because of the war.
Great Britain began to live as though it had
a pension. There was a falling off of initiative
and energy and virility. It slowly settled down
into a state of inertia. All foreigners know this,
and it is high time that we knew it. We ought
to know the basic cause of our troubles.

As Samuel Turner—one of the ablest
Creative Thinkers in Lancashire, said recently
—“1 think it fair to say that Britons have
partly idled and played away their position.”

As a result, other nations began to catch up
to us. In many industries they moved ahead
of us. The new industries of the last thirty
years, with a few exceptions, have not grown
great in Britain. We are now compelled to buy,
not only two-thirds of our food, but many
kinds of manufactured goods as well. The
balance of trade is against us. We have
2,000,000 people for whom we cannot find jobs.
Nothing saves us at present except the vast
funds of capital that were piled up by our
fathers and grandfathers. We are living on our
fat, not on what we éarn. We are not paying
our way, in world trade, if it were not for our
investments abroad, our shipping, our finance
and our insurance.

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