Your friend is the model young Briton of the present time.

I don't like the model young Briton.

I don't see the sense of crowing over him as a superb national production, because he is big and strong, and drinks beer with impunity, and takes a cold shower bath all the year round.

There is far too much glorification in England, just now, of the mere physical qualities which an Englishman shares with the savage and the brute.

And the ill results are beginning to show themselves already! We are readier than we ever were to practice all that is rough in our national customs, and to excuse all that is violent and brutish in our national acts.