I say nothing against the modern practice.
This would not be the place for such an argument.

Nor do I say that, by rules of absolute right and wrong, Cicero was right; but he was as right, at any rate, as the modern barrister.

And in reaching the high-minded conditions under which he worked, he had only the light of his own genius to guide him.

When compare the clothing of the savage race with our own, their beads and woad and straw and fibres with our own petticoats and pantaloons, we acknowledge the progress of civilization and the growth of machinery.

It is not a wonderful thing to us that an African prince should not be as perfectly dressed as a young man in Piccadilly.