You talked a great deal about humanizing industry--a vague phrase which might mean anything or nothing, since humanity covers all the vices as well as all the virtues of the race.

Benham could use that phrase as oratorically as you do, for it rolls easily off the tongue and commits one to nothing." Vetch's face lost suddenly its rigid gravity, as if he had suffered a rush of energy to the brain.

His eyes became blue again, and as keen as the blade of a knife.
"I believe, and the people who are with me believe, that I can make something out of the muddle if I am given a chance," he replied.

"Oh, I know that the reactionaries are in the saddle now--that they have been ever since they had the war as an excuse to mount! But I know also that you can no more drive out by law the spirit of liberalism from the American mind than you can drive out nature with a pitchfork.

For a little while you may think you have got the better of it; but it will crop out in spite of you.