The mass of people are with us, much more with us than they were a few years ago; the law is with us, the constitution and order of society, the spirit of the established religions, the customs and habits of mankind are with us--and against the Food.

Why should we temporise?
Why should we lie?
We hate it, we don't want it; why then should we have it?
Do you mean to just grizzle and obstruct passively and do nothing--till the sands are out ?" He stopped short and turned about.

"Look at that grove of nettles there.
In the midst of them are homes--deserted--where once clean families of simple men played out their honest lives! "And there!" he swung round to where the young Cossars muttered to one another of their wrongs.
"Look at them! And I know their father, a brute, a sort of brute beast with an intolerant loud voice, a creature who has ran amuck in our all too merciful world for the last thirty years and more.

An engineer! To him all that we hold dear and sacred is nothing.

Nothing! The splendid traditions of our race and land, the noble institutions, the venerable order, the broad slow march from precedent to precedent that has made our English people great and this sunny island free--it is all an idle tale, told and done with.