...tate and school, trade and commerce, and manufactures and agricul ture even politics, the most alarming of them all—I am pleased to see how little sp... ... them all—I am pleased to see how little space they occupy in the landscape. Politics is but a narrow field, and that still narrower highway yonder le... ... man does not stand from one year’s end to another, and there, consequently, politics are not, for they are but as the cigar smoke of a man. The vill... ...a faint and shadowy knowledge of a previous state of organic existence.” The Hindus dreamed that the earth rested on an elephant, and the elephant on ... ...e pines and oaks. Their attics were in the tops of the trees. They are of no politics. There was no noise of labor. I Walking H. D. Thoreau 29 did ...

...service. As Mr. Marriott puts it in his novel, “Now,” they “drop out” from politics as we understand politics at present. Local administration falls a... ... own, a phi- losophy of its own, and yet from the point of view of current politics and legislation unorganised and ineffective. Most of the forces of... ...d come. T o the lonely youth upon the New Zealand sheep farm, to the young Hindu, to the trapper under a Labrador tilt, to the half-breed assistant at... ...o arraign all employers; he took the law and the Church and Statecraft and politics for the higher and noble things they claimed to be. He wanted an e... ..., who must be propitiated before any dealings are pos- sible. Our national politics no longer express the realities of the national life; they are a m... ...d political profession. It delights in false issues and merely tech- nical politics. Steadily with the ascendancy of the House of Commons the barriste... ...y specialise extremely, for example, under such condi- tions as one had in Hindustan up to the coming of the present generation. There the metal worke...