I recently finished The Judgment of the Nations, by Christopher Dawson, "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century" (according to his Wikipedia page). In this book, he wrote about how England can survive as a nation of free people:
It is only by strengthening the element of vocation both in the State and in society generally that these evils can be avoided. ... It is remarkable that when in the first half of the nineteenth century a great French writer set out to portray the principle of duty and disinterested service against the motive of power and ambition and military glory he chose an English admiral who was his country's enemy as the embodiment of his ideal. ... It is easier for the English to accept the idea of social duty and disinterested service with a sense of personal responsibility. If this spirit can be applied to the new conditions of mass society, it is conceivable that a planned society might be created without the destruction of freedom either by impersonal bureaucracy or by inhuman tyranny.
