'Nature is made better by no mean,
But nature makes that mean; over that art
Which you say adds to nature, is an art
That nature makes.'


"Not as adventitious therefore will the wise man regard the faith
which is in him. The highest truth he sees he will fearlessly
utter; knowing that, let what may come of it, he is thus playing
his right part in the world--knowing that if he can effect the
change he aims at--well: if not--well also; though not SO well."

That passage comforts me. These, then, are my ideas. They may be
right, they may be wrong. But at least they are the sincere and
personal convictions of an honest man, warranted in him by that
spirit of the age, of which each of us is but an automatic
mouthpiece.

G. A.






THE BRITISH BARBARIANS

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