It helps to some comprehension of their muddle.

A man may be a first-rate soldier, doctor, banker--as we call the usurer now-a-days--or brewer, orator, anything that leads up to a figure-head, and prove a foolish fellow if you sound him.

I 've thought something like it, but wanted the word.

They say themselves, "Get to know, and you see with what little wisdom the world is governed!" You explain how it is.

I shall carry "aptitudes" away.' She looked straight at Weyburn.