It was a negation of everything, save the intellectual.

If he and his friends had been in power, there would never have been a war; there never would have been a German menace; the lamb would have lain down in peace, outside the lion.

He had an airy way of dismissing the ruder and more human aspects of the war.

Said I:-- "Anyone can talk of what might have been.

But that's all over and done with.