adventurous-spirited

Updated: June 19, 2025

The great landowners have been as well-disposed towards the endowment of higher education, and as willing to co-operate with the Church in protective and mildly educational legislation for children and the working class, as any political section. The financiers, too, are adventurous-spirited and eager for mechanical progress and technical efficiency.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The New Machiavelli