Chapter 1
FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION
T
he roots of Genesis sprang from Charterhouse, the famous public school protectively nestled in the heart of the English stockbroker belt at Godalming in Surrey. Charterhouse was, and still is, one of the leading schools in England. For the benefit of overseas readers, the term ‘public’ school in England is applied to what would normally be termed ‘private’ schools in most other countries. Technically of course the term is correct. Charterhouse is a public school in the sense that it is open to the public – but only to those members of the public with the ability to pay the generous annual fees. In the early sixties Charterhouse still retained an echo of the conservative values which had shaped the British Empire and it was to this the privileged bastion of 7
