We have to trace the origin of those dreadful thoughts that drive men on at last to intellectual fanaticism and intellectual crime.

We were only just in time to prevent the assassination at Hartlepool, and that was entirely due to the fact that our Mr.Wilks (a smart young fellow) thoroughly understood a triolet." "Do you mean," asked Syme, "that there is really as much connection between crime and the modern intellect as all that ?" "You are not sufficiently democratic," answered the policeman, "but you were right when you said just now that our ordinary treatment of the poor criminal was a pretty brutal business.

I tell you I am sometimes sick of my trade when I see how perpetually it means merely a war upon the ignorant and the desperate.

But this new movement of ours is a very different affair.

We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals.