But the spokesmen of the French and British peoples have run the risk of completing the ruin, which Germany began, by a Peace which, if it is carried into effect, must impair yet further, when it might have restored, the delicate, complicated organization, already shaken and broken by war, through which alone the European peoples can employ themselves and live.
In England the outward aspect of life does not yet teach us to feel or realize in the least that an age is over.

We are busy picking up the threads of our life where we dropped them, with this difference only, that many of us seem a good deal richer than we were before.

Where we spent millions before the war, we have now learnt that we can spend hundreds of millions and apparently not suffer for it.

Evidently we did not exploit to the utmost the possibilities of our economic life.

We look, therefore, not only to a return to the comforts of 1914, but to an immense broadening and intensification of them.