...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been.

Kaleidoscope. I wish my friends to know that I am leaving their company in a peaceful frame of mind with some timid hopes for a de-personalised after-life beyond due confines of space time and matter and beyond the limits of our comprehension. His book Bricks to Babel was publiArthur Koestlerd that year.

In 1931 Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany until disillusioned by Stalinism he resigned in 1938. Arthur Koestler CBE (5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist.