I always welcome the signs of civilization." Glazzard looked at him with curiosity, and the speaker threw back his head in a self-conscious, conceited way.
"Picturesqueness is all very well," he added, "but it very often means hardships to human beings.

I don't ask whether a country looks beautiful, but what it does for the inhabitants." "Very right and proper," assented Glazzard, with a curl of the lip.
"I know very well," pursued the moralist, "that civilization doesn't necessarily mean benefit to the class which ought to be considered first.

But that's another question.

It _ought_ to benefit them, and eventually it must." "You lean towards Socialism ?" "Christian Socialism if you know what that signifies." "I have an idea.

A very improving doctrine, no doubt." They dismounted, and began the ascent of the hillside by a path which wound among trees.