Henry Watterson: “Directly he came out and said: “I may be doing wrong, and don’t feel entirely sure of my ground, but I am going to let…”

In short he was an opportunist void of conviction and indifferent to consistency.

Yet it is after all a figure of speech not a personality that appeals to our sense of duty without necessarily engaging our affection.

Socialism, disappointed of its Utopia, may then repeat the familiar lesson and reproduce the man-on-horseback, or the world may drop into another abyss, and, after the ensuing “dark ages,” like those that swallowed Babylon and Tyre, Greece…

With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.