Forman), vol.iv.p.

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About all these things they argue by the old _a priori_ methods which we have inherited with our political language.

But after a time a sense of unreality grows upon them.

Knowledge of the complex and difficult world forces itself into their minds.

Like the old Chartists with whom I once spent an evening, they tell you that their politics have been 'all talk'-- all words--and there are few among them, except those to whom politics has become a profession or a career, who hold on until through weariness and disappointment they learn new confidence from new knowledge.