How could we get on without them ?" "Quite as well as Athens got on without them.

Our mechanical contrivances seem to serve us; but they are really mastering us, crowding and crushing the beauty out of our lives, and making commerce the only god." "I certainly admit that the coarser forms of Radicalism have made alarming strides under the influence of our modern civilization.

But the convenience of steam conveyance is so remarkable that I doubt if we could now dispense with it.

Nor, as a consistent Liberal, a moderate Liberal, do I care to advocate any retrogression, even in the direction of ancient Greece." Douglas was seized with a certain impatience of Mr.Lind, as of a well-mannered man who had never learned anything, and had forgotten all that he had been taught.

He did not attempt to argue, but merely said, coldly: "I can only say that I wish Fate had made me an Athenian instead of an Englishman of the nineteenth century." Mr.Lind smiled complacently: he knew Douglas, if not Athens, better, but was in too tolerant a humor to say so.