Whereas so many writers who are " different " seem to be merely straining away from the conventional in their originality, Mrs. Woolf transcends it e… - Gerald Gould

" Instinct," as said, " is a great matter "; but it is not the whole. believes so much in domination and antagonism that he seems not to believe in men and women—the first act of faith that God requires of the artist.

The civilisation and social structure of our country, rightly or wrongly, take for granted that a few people shall have a lot of money and a lot of power, and great many people very little money and very little power. But the individuals, and particularly the labouring individuals, who create and compose our civilisation and society, are beginning to cease to take this state of things for granted.

They kept a bird— Poor bird !—in a cage ;
Till—so I have heard— Without need, without rage,
Cheerfully, coldly, They let it flit,
And more than boldly Murdered it. Since the law of nature Is danger and pain,
The obedient creature Did not complain,
But left as token to everybody
The wing broken And the breast bloody.