And I don't see or find any reason to believe in the theory of decadence.

The world never saw a finer lot of men than the best of their ruling class.

You may search the world and you may search history for finer men than Lord Morley, Sir Edward Grey, Mr.Harcourt, and other members of the present Cabinet.

And I meet such men everywhere--gently bred, high-minded, physically fit, intellectually cultivated, patriotic.

If the devotion to old forms and the inertia which makes any change almost impossible strike an American as out-of-date, you must remember that in the grand old times of England, they had all these things and had them worse than they are now.