CHAPTER XIV.
CONCLUSION _"While the advances made by objective science and its industrial applications are palpable and undeniable all around us, it is a matter of doubt and dispute if our social and moral advance towards happiness and virtue has been great or any."_--MARK PATTISON.
After all, a nation gets the politics that it deserves.

The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

If the tone of public life is a low one it is because the tone of society is not a high one.

The remedy, then, is not "Sack the lot," but rather, "Repent, lest a worse thing befall thee." It seems to me that a beginning in moral and social reformation might be made if aristocracy could be encouraged to affirm its ancient rights by the performance of its inherent duties.
We are a nation without standards, kept in health rather by memories which are fading than by examples which are compelling.

We still march to the dying music of great traditions but there is no captain of civilization at the head of our ranks.