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Modern Politics Is, At Bottom, A Struggle Not Of Men But Of Forces.

No Man Means All He Says, And Yet Very Few Say All They Mean, For Words Are Slippery And Thought Is Viscous.

The Gothic Is Singular In This; One Seems Easily At Home In The Renaissance; One Is Not Too Strange In The Byzantine; As For The Roman, It Is Ourselves; And We Could Walk Blindfolded Through Every Chink And Cranny Of The Greek Mind; All These Styles Seem Modern When We Come Close To Them; But The Gothic Gets Away.

Unbroken Evolution Under Uniform Conditions Pleased Every One -- Except Curates And Bishops; It Was The Very Best Substitute For Religion; A Safe, Conservative Practical, Thoroughly Common-law Deity.

His Brothers Were The Type; He Was The Variation.