As a matter of fact, so far from being hanged or incurring any kind of odium, his system is quite the most popular there is at present.

London is full of young men in large, round spectacles, and scraggy women who haven't succeeded in getting married--the leaders of modern thought, you'll observe, Major--every one of whom is deeply attached to Nietzsche.

You can't, without labelling yourself a hopeless reactionary, fly right in the face of cultured society by refusing to associate with Miss King." "I won't mix myself up with--" "Come now, Major, that sort of attitude would have been all very well fifty years ago, but it won't do now.

You simply can't shut yourself up and say that you won't speak to any one who doesn't agree with you in every opinion you have.

As a matter of fact, you associate freely with lots of people who differ from you in religion and politics far more fundamentally than poor Miss King does.