Haunts of ancient peace . trongphrase be permitted, a hell of modern , women it would be a libel onAthens and Alcibiades to speak of as Aspa-sias, and music-hall buffoons, were then itschief visitors, and Bridge, with high stakes, itsprincipal diversion. Its tenant is periodicallysummoned for driving his Motor Cars beyondthe pace permitted by the law, and that is theleast heinous of his offences. He is the sonand successor of my friend. When that hap-pens, one must be content to say Guarda, epassa. Such a case is surely an exceptional one, Isaid ; though I have noticed that,
Haunts of ancient peace . trongphrase be permitted, a hell of modern , women it would be a libel onAthens and Alcibiades to speak of as Aspa-sias, and music-hall buffoons, were then itschief visitors, and Bridge, with high stakes, itsprincipal diversion. Its tenant is periodicallysummoned for driving his Motor Cars beyondthe pace permitted by the law, and that is theleast heinous of his offences. He is the sonand successor of my friend. When that hap-pens, one must be content to say Guarda, epassa. Such a case is surely an exceptional one, Isaid ; though I have noticed that, since it fur-nishes searchers for what is called fashionableintelligence with many paragraphs, it is not in-frequently taken as a text for a fresh homily onthe decline and fall of the British Aristocracy. Yes, the easiest way of moralising. Theother day I overheard some one expatiating onthe inertness, the stupidity, the conservativecrassness, the fatal self-complacency, of theEnglish People, and I wondered to myself how. THE RUIXED KEf^P HAUNTS OF ANCIENT PEACE 71 so incapable a race had acquired, and still re-tains, possession of half the globe. I suppose, said Veronica, theorists al-ways have a theory that accounts for every-thing. Just so, I said. But is it not a curiouscircumstance that all the Laws of Human Evo-lution, and Philosophies of History, with whichwe have been furnished so profusely of recentyears, while conclusively demonstrating to thetheorist himself the course of the Past, fail tofurnish us with any means of correctly surmis-ing the march of the Future ? It is as thoughAstronomers should offer us a Law that re-corded infallibly the orbit of the planets formillions of bygone years, but did not afford usany trustworthy information as to where theywill be found to-night. The pace, continued the Poet, at whichthe son of my friend conducts his life, andwhich resembles that of his motor cars, was notlong in killing, or at least in hopelessly maim-ing, the income
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