co-ordering

Updated: May 22, 2025

I meant, in real truth, that there was the same easy-going and absence of system on all sides, the same powerlessness and indifference of the State, the same independence in single institutions, the same free course for abuses, the same confusion, the same lack of all idea of co-ordering things, as the French say that is, of making them work fitly together to a fit end; the same waste of power, therefore the same extravagance, and the same poverty of result."

George William Erskine Russell - Matthew Arnold