And yet--why retreat?
Why not fight it out, temperately, but resolutely?
"I lost my temper again like an idiot, this morning--I mustn't--mustn't--lose it.

He had jolly well the best of it." "Self-determination"-- that was what she was bent on.

If it was good for nations, it was good also for individuals.

Liberty to make one's own mistakes, to face one's own risks--that was the minimum.

And for one adult human being to accept the dictation of another human being was the only sin worth talking about.