The one laid the emphasis on police, the other on poets.

But for a detailed exposition of the contrast I must send the reader to Mrs Green's "Irish Nationality." In a world in which right is little more than a secretion of might, in which, unless a strong man armed keeps house, his enemies enter in, the weakness of the Gaelic idea is obvious.

But the Roman pattern too had a characteristic vice which has led logically in our own time to a monstrous and sinister growth of armaments.
To those who recognise in this deification of war the blackest menace of our day the vision of a culture State is not without charm.

The shattering possibilities enfolded in it would have fevered Nietzsche and fascinated Renan.

But, be that as it may, Ireland played Cleopatra to the Antony of the invaders.