But single thraldom, or a double strife?

Our own affections still at home to please is a disease:

To cross the seas to any foreign soil perils and toil.

Wars with their noise affright us: when they cease, we are worse in peace.

What then remains, but that we still should cry

Not to be born, or being born to die.


WALTER BAGEHOT

(1826-1877)

BY FORREST MORGAN