Your Board schools, your popular press, your spread of education! Machinery for ruining the country, that's what I call it.' 'You have done a good deal, I think, to counteract those influences in Wattleborough.' 'I hope so; and if only I had kept the use of my limbs I'd have done a good deal more.

I have an idea of offering substantial prizes to men and women engaged in sedentary work who take an oath to abstain from all reading, and keep it for a certain number of years.

There's a good deal more need for that than for abstinence from strong liquor.

If I could have had my way I would have revived prize-fighting.' His brother laughed with contemptuous impatience.
'You would doubtless like to see military conscription introduced into England ?' said Jasper.
'Of course I should! You talk of civilising; there's no such way of civilising the masses of the people as by fixed military service.

Before mental training must come training of the body.