Physical exercise, with a view to health, used to be the privilege of the upper class; we have been teaching the people to play games and go in for healthy sports.

At the same time there has been considerable aesthetic progress.

England is no longer the stupidly inartistic country of early Victorian times; there's a true delight in music and painting, and a much more general appreciation of the good in literature.

With all this we have been so busy that politics have fallen into the background--politics in the proper sense of the word.
Ideas of national advance have been either utterly lost sight of, or grossly confused with mere material gain.

At length we see the Conservative reaction in full swing, and who knows where it will land us?
It seems to be leading to the vulgarest and most unintelligent form of chauvinism.