England can't get itself clean loose from the continent nor from continental mediaevalism; and with that we can have nothing to do.

Men like Kerr think that somehow a great push toward democracy here will be given by the war.

I don't quite see how.

So far the aristocracy have made perhaps the best showing in defence of English liberty.

They are paying the bills of the war; they have sent their sons; these sons have died like men; and their parents never whimper.