Impressions and comments / Havelock Ellis.

  • Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.
Date:
1926
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Credit: Impressions and comments / Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    42 IMPRESSIONS AND COMMENTS claim with such moral energy as they might be capable of. The spectacle of the big robber is always impressive, and the most respectable of mobs is carried away by it. Who was ever a pirate for millions ? as Raleigh pro¬ tested to Bacon. If we imagine the victors in this case to have been on a rather smaller scale the enthusiasm of the Guildhall mob would have been considerably damped. Let us imagine they were a band of burglars who had broken in the night before and carried off the materials for the forthcoming banquet, leaving one of the band behind dead and two wounded. When the guests seated at the bare board heard the emphatic declaration that the victors are not to be robbed of the fruits which have cost them so dear, would they have raised quite such loud and prolonged cheers ? November 12.—The Divine Ironist who surely rules the world seldom leaves Himself without witness. On Lord Mayor's Day this witness appeared in the form of an ignorant ruffian. Within a few yards of the Mansion House, within a few hours of that momentous declaration which followed the turtle soup.