Naught of this can we offer to those who come to watch over our destinies.

And the worst of all this is that they go away just when they are beginning to get an understanding of their duties.

But we are getting away from our subject." "But before getting back to it I must make some things plain," interrupted the youth eagerly.

"I can admit that the government does not know the people, but I believe that the people know the government even less.

There are useless officials, bad ones, if you wish, but there are also good ones, and if these are unable to do anything it is because they meet with an inert mass, the people, who take little part in the affairs that concern them.