IT once struck a jocular writer as laughable that Sir Charles Dilke should end a speech on politics by a quotation from Joseph de Maistre. Where the absurdity of quoting one of the greatest of all political writers in a political speech lay, the funny...
IT once struck a jocular writer as laughable that Sir Charles Dilke should end a speech on politics by a quotation from Joseph de Maistre. Where the absurdity of quoting one of the greatest of all political writers in a political speech lay, the funny man did not explain, and it would show a rather pedantic want of understanding of the conditions of his trade to ask him for his reasons.