wide-flooding

Updated: July 24, 2026

I do not seem to doubt a large willingness among our people to-day for mutual service and helpfulness I believe a vast number of our young women of the well-to-do type are at this moment deeply regretting their inability to do anything except knit superfluous mufflers but was there ever in the history of the world such huge, such wide-flooding incompetence?

Edward Carpenter - The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife