Such an outrage combines the greatest possible regard for humanity with the most alarming display of ferocious imbecility.

I defy the ingenuity of journalists to persuade their public that any given member of the proletariat can have a personal grievance against astronomy.

Starvation itself could hardly be dragged in there--eh?
And there are other advantages.

The whole civilised world has heard of Greenwich.

The very boot-blacks in the basement of Charing Cross Station know something of it.