[11] Following the French Revolution Wordsworth wrote:
I lost
All feeling of conviction and in fine
Sick, wearied out with contrarieties
Yielded up moral questions in despair.
—Prelude, bk. xi.
[12] Ross, [op. cit.], p. 200.
[13] To this cause of immobility may be added others, such as: (1) Narrow experience and few interests. (2) Large percentage of population owning property. (3) Oriental pride in permanence. (4) Fatalistic philosophies. (5) Over-emphasis of government.
[14] Thomas, [op. cit.], pp. 20, 21.
[15] Thomas, [op. cit.], p. 18.