The difficulty is not that the path from the log cabin to the White House is not made easy; that will always need vigorous axe-work and a stout heart. It is that society has become so rigid that average youth is deprived of ...modest hopes...And this narrowing of opportunity has come about when its mental outlook has been infinitely broadened...man today, educated, open-eyed, imaginative, chafes bitterly at his confinement in a groove which may be far narrower than that of his predecessors.

The result in the end must be revolution, the most dangerous kind, a revolution of the middle classes. It is on their discontent that the dictators today have based their power.