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The Suffragist
Rightly or wrongly, it is certain that a man both liberal and chivalric, can and very often does feel a dis-ease and distrust touching thos…
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The Poet And The Cheese
There is something creepy in the flat Eastern Counties; a brush of the white feather. There is a stillness, which is rather of the mind tha…
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The Thing
The wind awoke last night with so noble a violence that it was like the war in heaven; and I thought for a moment that the Thing had broken…
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The Man Who Thinks Backwards
The man who thinks backwards is a very powerful person to-day: indeed, if he is not omnipotent, he is at least omnipresent. It is he who wr…
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The Nameless Man
There are only two forms of government—the monarchy or personal government, and the republic or impersonal government. England is not a gov…
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The Gardener And The Guinea
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an English Peasant. Indeed, the type can only exist in community, so much does it depend on co…
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The Voter And The Two Voices
The real evil of our Party System is commonly stated wrong. It was stated wrong by Lord Rosebery, when he said that it prevented the best m…
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The Mad Official
Going mad is the slowest and dullest business in the world. I have very nearly done it more than once in my boyhood, and so have nearly all…
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The Enchanted Man
When I arrived to see the performance of the Buckinghamshire Players, who acted Miss Gertrude Robins's POT LUCK at Naphill a short time ago…
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The Sun Worshipper
There is a shrewd warning to be given to all people who are in revolt. And in the present state of things, I think all men are revolting in…
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The Wrong Incendiary
I stood looking at the Coronation Procession I mean the one in Beaconsfield; not the rather elephantine imitation of it which, I believe, h…
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The Free Man
The idea of liberty has ultimately a religious root; that is why men find it so easy to die for and so difficult to define. It refers final…
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The Hypothetical Householder
We have read of some celebrated philosopher who was so absent-minded that he paid a call at his own house. My own absent-mindedness is extr…
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The Priest Of Spring
The sun has strengthened and the air softened just before Easter Day. But it is a troubled brightness which has a breath not only of novelt…
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The Real Journalist
Our age which has boasted of realism will fail chiefly through lack of reality. Never, I fancy, has there been so grave and startling a div…
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The Sentimental Scot
Of all the great nations of Christendom, the Scotch are by far the most romantic. I have just enough Scotch experience and just enough Scot…
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The Sectarian Of Society
A fixed creed is absolutely indispensable to freedom. For while men are and should be various, there must be some communication between the…
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The Fool
For many years I had sought him, and at last I found him in a club. I had been told that he was everywhere; but I had almost begun to think…
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The Conscript And The Crisis
Very few of us ever see the history of our own time happening. And I think the best service a modern journalist can do to society is to rec…
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The Miser And His Friends
It is a sign of sharp sickness in a society when it is actually led by some special sort of lunatic. A mild touch of madness may even keep…
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The Mystagogue
Whenever you hear much of things being unutterable and indefinable and impalpable and unnamable and subtly indescribable, then elevate your…
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The Red Reactionary
The one case for Revolution is that it is the only quite clean and complete road to anything even to restoration. Revolution alone can be n…
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The Separatist And Sacred Things
In the very laudable and fascinating extensions of our interest in Asiatic arts or faiths, there are two incidental injustices which we ten…
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The Mummer
The night before Christmas Eve I heard a burst of musical voices so close that they might as well have been inside the house instead of jus…
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The Aristocratic 'Arry
The Cheap Tripper, pursued by the curses of the aesthetes and the antiquaries, really is, I suppose, a symptom of the strange and almost un…
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The New Theologian
It is an old story that names do not fit things; it is an old story that the oldest forest is called the New Forest, and that Irish stew is…
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The Romantic In The Rain
The middle classes of modern England are quite fanatically fond of washing; and are often enthusiastic for teetotalism. I cannot therefore…
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The False Photographer
When, as lately, events have happened that seem (to the fancy, at least) to test if not stagger the force of official government, it is amu…
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The Sultan
There is one deep defect in our extension of cosmopolitan and Imperial cultures. That is, that in most human things if you spread your butt…
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The Architect Of Spears
The other day, in the town of Lincoln, I suffered an optical illusion which accidentally revealed to me the strange greatness of the Gothic…
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The Man On Top
There is a fact at the root of all realities to-day which cannot be stated too simply. It is that the powers of this world are now not trus…
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The Other Kind Of Man
There are some who are conciliated by Conciliation Boards. There are some who, when they hear of Royal Commissions, breathe again or snore…
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The Mediæval Villain
I see that there have been more attempts at the whitewashing of King John. But the gentleman who wrote has a further interest in the matter…
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The Divine Detective
Every person of sound education enjoys detective stories, and there are even several points on which they have a hearty superiority to most…
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The Elf Of Japan
There are things in this world of which I can say seriously that I love them but I do not like them. The point is not merely verbal, but ps…
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The Chartered Libertine
I find myself in agreement with Mr. Robert Lynd for his most just remark in connection with the Malatesta case, that the police are becomin…
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The Contented Man
The word content is not inspiring nowadays; rather it is irritating because it is dull. It prepares the mind for a little sermon in the sty…
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The Angry Author: His Farewell
I have republished all these old articles of mine because they cover a very controversial period, in which I was in nearly all the controve…