equable-tempered

Updated: May 22, 2025

Oh, the people, the people! ... They are unquestionably the flesh, blood, bone, and sinew of the country, and the English people, say what sneerers will to the contrary, are a GOOD people, patient, plodding, forbearing, strong, and, on the whole, most equable-tempered, but their teachers teach them wrongly, and confuse their brains instead of clearing them, and throw a weight of Compulsory Education at their heads, without caring how they may use it, or how such a blow from the clenched fist of Knowledge may stupefy and bewilder them, . . and the consequence is that now, were a strong man to arise, with a lucid brain, an eloquent power of expressing truth, a great sympathy with his kind, and an immense indifference to his own fate in the contest, he could lead this vast, waiting, wandering, growling, hydra-headed London wheresoever he would!"

Marie Corelli - Ardath