There lies, I think, our greatest danger.

It seems to me, observing our public life with some degree of intimacy, that there is a growing tendency for the gentleman to fall out of the political ranks and for his place to be filled by the professional politician, who in many cases appears to be almost entirely without moral principle.

What can become of such a movement save eventual corruption?
At present our politics are stupid but fairly honest.

There are still representatives of the old school in the House of Commons.

But the conquering advance is from the ranks of professionalism.
I would not have the reader to suppose that I consider Lord Leverhulme a heaven-sent genius of statesmanship.