It is impossible not to like this very human anachronism, who, within the limitations imposed by the convenience of a citizenship to which he unwillingly belongs, does battle For Faith, and Fame, and Honour, and the ruined hearths of Clare.
The reader may take all this as fiction.

I am sure no one will annoy me by trying on any of the caps I have displayed on the counter of my shop.

What I do fear is that the picture of some of my duties which I have given may have made a wrong impression of the Department's work upon the reader's mind.

He may have come to the conclusion that, contrary to all the principles laid down, an attempt was being made to do for the people things which the new movement was to induce the people to do for themselves.

The Department may appear to be using its official position and Government funds to constitute itself a sort of Universal Providence, exercising an authority and a discretion over matters upon which in any progressive community the people must decide for themselves.