The second thought that the Allies' cause was tainted, and that Britain had contributed as much as Germany to the catastrophe.

This included all the adherents of the L.D.A .-- or League of Democrats against Aggression--a very proud body.

The third and much the largest, which embraced everybody else, held that we had fought long enough and that the business could now be settled by negotiation, since Germany had learned her lesson.

I was myself a modest member of the last school, but I was gradually working my way up to the second, and I hoped with luck to qualify for the first.

My acquaintances approved my progress.
Letchford said I had a core of fanaticism in my slow nature, and that I would end by waving the red flag.
Spiritual pride and vanity, as I have said, were at the bottom of most of them, and, try as I might, I could find nothing very dangerous in it all.