International affairs seemed insignificant when once one was really in Fairbridge.
Fairbridge, although rampant when local politics were concerned, had no regard whatever for those of the nation at large, except as they involved Fairbridge.

Fairbridge, to its own understanding, was a nucleus, an ultimatum.

It was an example of the triumph of the infinitesimal.

It saw itself through a microscope and loomed up gigantic.

Fairbridge was like an insect, born with the conviction that it was an elephant.