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Abused out of all reason or praised irrelevantly the one thing this nation has not been able to do with these men is to use their genius. It is this life-sapping quality of our politics that should be fought its wanton waste of the initiatives we have its stupid indifference. We need a new sense of political values. These times require a different order of thinking.
Even those who were honourable, disinterested, and, for such a period, unselfish, were for the most part the disciples of tradition and the slaves of that life-sapping curse of British politics: the party spirit, which led otherwise honourable men to oppose with all their strength the measures of their party opponents, even in the face of their country's dire need.
The watching devils or the guardian angels of the night vanished, and up got the eight hundred members of the Gentlemen's Country Club, to live as best they might through one day more; coughing, hawking, spitting, murmuring but all with a sense of repression in it, the life-sapping drug of fear in its origin, but long since become a mechanical habit with most of them.
Among themselves, at the clubs or elsewhere, the men speculated more or less coarsely and unfeelingly upon the foundations of the numerous scandals which had from time to time blossomed like brilliant and life-sapping parasites upon the tree of Mrs. Sampson's reputation.
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