“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.