Not only justice but civility is enforced by our judges in all sorts of intercourse.

No value of service is accepted as a set-off to boorish or offensive manners." It occurred to me, as Dr.Leete was speaking, that in all his talk I had heard much of the nation and nothing of the state governments.

Had the organization of the nation as an industrial unit done away with the states?
I asked.
"Necessarily," he replied.

"The state governments would have interfered with the control and discipline of the industrial army, which, of course, required to be central and uniform.

Even if the state governments had not become inconvenient for other reasons, they were rendered superfluous by the prodigious simplification in the task of government since your day.