And What Is Impossible To Science?

I Have Learned More [from Balzac] Than From All The Professional Historians, Economists, And Statisticians Put Together.

The Way In Which The Vast Mass Of The Poor Are Treated By Modern Society Is Truly Scandalous. They Are Herded Into Great Cities Where They Breathe A Fouler Air Than In The Countryside Which They Have Left.

Ideas Often Kindle Each Other, Like Electrical Sparks.

What Each Individual Wills Is Obstructed By Everyone Else, And What Emerges Is Something That No One Willed.

But The Most Horrible Spot .... Lies....immediately South West Of Oxford Road And Is Known As Little Ireland. The Race That Lives In These Ruinous Cottages, Behind Broken Windows, Mended With Oilskin, Sprung Doors, And Rotten Door-posts, Or In Dark, Wet Cellars, In Measureless Filth And Stench....must Surely Have Reached The Lowest Stage Of Humanity.