You and I[33] can never be thankful enough that our ancestors came of this stock.

Even those that have stayed have cut a wide swath, and they wield good scythes yet.

But I have moods when I pity them--for their dependence, for instance, on a navy (2 keels to 1) for their very bread and meat.

They frantically resent conveniences.

They build their great law court building (the architecture ecclesiastical) so as to provide an entrance hall of imposing proportions which they use once a year; and to get this fine hall they have to make their court rooms, which they must use all the time, dark and small and inaccessible.