12/16 Of the two cults the latter is the simpler, sincerer, and certainly the less dishonest. The rivalry of Mr.Roosevelt and Mr.Taft aided, and the effort (for the time at any rate) has been wrecked, thereby plunging England into a further paroxysm of religious despondency and grave concern for German morals. This mood eventuated in Lord Haldane's "week end" trip to Berlin. The voice was the voice of Jacob, in spite of the hand of Esau. Mr.Churchill at Glasgow, showed the real hand and the mess of pottage so amiably offered at Berlin bought no German birthright. |