Then he said: "Felix, you're talking flat revolution." Felix, who, faintly smiling, had watched him up and down, up and down the Turkey carpet, answered: "Not so.

I am by no means a revolutionary person, because with all the good-will in the world I have been unable to see how upheavals from the bottom, or violence of any sort, is going to equalize these lives or do any good.

But I detest humbug, and I believe that so long as you and your Mallorings go on blindly dosing yourselves with humbug about duty and superiority, so long will you see things as they are not.

And until you see things as they are, purged of all that sickening cant, you will none of you really move to make the conditions of life more and ever more just.

For, mark you, Stanley, I, who do not believe in revolution from the bottom, the more believe that it is up to us in honour to revolutionize things from the top!" "H'm!" said Stanley; "that's all very well; but the more you give the more they want, till there's no end to it." Felix stared round that room, where indeed one was all body.
"By George," he said, "I've yet to see a beginning.