22/42 Few men think as I do, and your uncle considers me, I suspect, to be governed by my unhappy way of seeing the dark side of things. He says that I am a bewildered pessimist about politics. A pessimist I may be, but it is the habitually hopeful meliorist who is just now perplexed past power to think straight." John's interest was caught for the moment by the word, "meliorist." "What is a meliorist, sir ?" he asked. "Oh, a wild insanity of hopefulness. |