I sent this chapter to two literary friends, one of whom, with the help of a globe, disputed my accuracy in a learned ethnological disquisition with which he favoured me.

The other warned me to be even more obscure and sent me the following verses, addressed by 'Cynicus' (J.K.

Stephen) to Shakespeare, "You wrote a line too much, my sage, Of seers the first, the first of sayers; For only half the world's a stage, And only all the women players." [34] These qualities, as will be explained later, happen to have a special economic value in the farming industry, and so are available for the elevation of rural life, with whose problems we are now so deeply concerned in Ireland.

Their applicability to urban life need not be discussed here.

But my study of the co-operative movement in England has convinced me that, if the English had the associative instincts of the Irish, that movement would play a part in English life more commensurate with its numerical strength and the volume of its commercial transactions, than can be claimed for it so far.
[35] _La Psychologie de la Foule_.
[36] July 27th, 1903,--His Majesty thus confirmed the striking utterance of imperial policy contained in Lord Dudley's speech to the Incorporated Law Society, on the 20th of November, 1902.