A reforming movement, whose supporters never understand its own proper meaning and purpose, is sure in the end to go astray.

It is all very well for Englishmen to do their thinking after the event, because tradition lies at the basis of their national life.

But Americans, as a nation, are consecrated to the realization of a group of ideas; and ideas to be fruitful must square both with the facts to which they are applied and with one another.

Mr.Roosevelt and his hammer must be accepted gratefully, as the best available type of national reformer; but the day may and should come when a national reformer will appear who can be figured more in the guise of St.Michael, armed with a flaming sword and winged for flight..