Everything is sensual and ostentatious, and shamefacedly sensual and ostentatious.
It is time for the best people in aristocracy to set their faces against this wanton and destructive spirit.

It is time a halt was called to luxury and profligacy; time that the door was shut in the face of invading vulgarity.

Creation has not agonized in bloody sweat through countless ages of suffering and achievement that those who possess the highest opportunities for doing good should pervert those opportunities into a mere platform for the display of a harmful badness.

Evolution was not aiming at Belgravia when it set out on its long journey from the flaming mist of the nebula.

We cannot suppose that Nature is content with the egoism of the social butterfly.