The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another. - G. M. Young

A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults.

Of historic method, indeed, nothing wiser has ever been said than a word which will be found in Gibbon's youthful Essay on the Study of Literature. Facts, the young sage instructs us, are of three kinds: those which prove nothing beyond themselves, those which serve to illustrate a character or explain a motive, and those which dominate the system and move its springs.

To play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has always been a Tory fancy.