WANTED: A NATIONAL SENSE.
"The English have always wanted a national sense," says Mr. Maurice Hewlett, the novelist, in the Chronicle. "As a ra<;e they are very keenly alive to their immediate local needs, to their instant griefs. Public spirit, however, they lack, and foresight, too. "They were wanting in 1066 when, without a stroke of their own, they let the Normans found a dynasty of foreign Kings; they were wanting in 1649 when they allowed the county families to put down one King and put up another ; they were wanting in 1832 when they allowed the middle class to get a vote and went without one themselves; they have been wanting since 1885, when, having at last got their vote, they have allowed themselves to be directed for whom they are to vote. They will only get a, true political sense, I fancy—by getting it."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 13
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