“Well, we’ve been waiting for years⁠ ⁠… we wait longer. Hate’s a growing thing like anything else. It’s the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas on to life, forcing one’s deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas. We drive ourselves with a formula, like a machine. The logical mind pretends to rule the roost, and the roost turns into pure hate. We’re all Bolshevists, only we are hypocrites. The Russians are Bolshevists without hypocrisy.”

“But there are many other ways,” said Hammond, “than the Soviet way. The Bolshevists aren’t really intelligent.”