That English guns helped to impose the mainly Germanic policy of the Concert upon Crete, cannot be left out of mind while we are making appeals to Greece--or considering the crimes of England.
But the same principle serves to keep the internal politics of the Germans quiet, and prevent Socialism being the practical hope or peril it has been in so many other countries.

It operates in two ways; first, by a curious fallacy about "the time not being ripe"-- as if _time_ could ever be ripe.

The same savage superstition from the forests had infected Matthew Arnold pretty badly when he made a personality out of the Zeitgeist--perhaps the only ghost that was ever entirely fabulous.

It is tricked by a biological parallel, by which the chicken always comes out of the egg "at the right time." He does not; he comes out when he comes out.

The Marxian Socialist will not strike till the clock strikes; and the clock is made in Germany, and never strikes.