In the disparate collection Time and Eternity, Nicholas Flynn provides an excellent introduction, going over Muggeridge\u2019s youth, psychological profile and career. Muggeridge was raised by Fabian socialist parents, his early journalistic career being tied up with these ideals. It was in part for this reason the realities of actual collectivist, centralized administration would hit Muggeridge so hard while living in a Marxist country. It would be unfair to call this collection of writings \u201cuneven,\u201d\u009d as if it had pretensions to be Muggeridge\u2019s \u201cCollected Works\u201d\u009d or something. Rather, it\u2019s a representative selection of brief articles, letters and reflections acting as a collective window into the mind of a profoundly spiritual, sensitive and ultimately brief articles, letters and reflections acting as a collective window into the mind of a profoundly spiritual, sensitive and ultimately brave man. There are so many practically poetic-sounding gems and pithy observations scattered about, it\u2019s difficult to know where to start quoting.<\/p>\n