All classes alike thus build their plans, the rich to spend more and save less, the poor to spend more and work less.
But perhaps it is only in England (and America) that it is possible to be so unconscious.

In continental Europe the earth heaves and no one but is aware of the rumblings.

There it is not just a matter of extravagance or "labor troubles"; but of life and death, of starvation and existence, and of the fearful convulsions of a dying civilization.
* * * * * For one who spent in Paris the greater part of the six months which succeeded the Armistice an occasional visit to London was a strange experience.

England still stands outside Europe.

Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her.