“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.”
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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?
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
