It makes one so impatient to sit down and do nothing.

If one could only stir her up to a sense of her nationality!" he went on, less lyrically, though with the same fine enthusiasm.

"She seems to be losing it, letting the smaller nations assert theirs to such an extent that she is running the risk of becoming a mere geographical expression.

She has merged herself in the Imperial Ideal.

That's magnificent; but the Empire ought to realize her as the great Motherheart.