Even Sir Edward Grey jocularly ran me across our history with questions like this: "Suppose you have to intervene, what then ?" "Make 'em vote and live by their decisions." "But suppose they will not so live ?" "We'll go in again and make 'em vote again." "And keep this up 200 years ?" asked he.
"Yes," said I."The United States will he here two hundred years and it can continue to shoot men for that little space till they learn to vote and to rule themselves." I have never seen him laugh so heartily.

Shooting men into self-government! Shooting them into orderliness--he comprehends that; and that's all right.

But that's as far as his habit of mind goes.

At Sheffield last night, when I had to make a speech, I explained "idealism" (they always quote it) in Government.

They listened attentively and even eagerly.