{148} We English had ours in India; and though the cases are far from being alike, yet a consciousness of what we ought to have been and ought to be toward the natives could not have been awakened by less than the reddened waters of the Ganges.

So I fear you will have to look on a day of judgment worse than has been painted.
'As to all the frauds and impositions which have been disclosed by the failures, what a want of the sense of personal responsibility they show.

It seems to be thought that "association" will "cover a multitude of sins;" as if "and Co." could enter heaven.

A firm may be described as a partnership for lowering the standard of morals.

Even ecclesiastical bodies are not free from the "and Co.;" very different from "the goodly fellowship of the apostles." 'The better class of young gentlemen in England are seized with a mediaeval mania, to which Ruskin has contributed much.