On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 20:55:01 -0000
"Jeff Green" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The lines that got me were.
> "In those days Great Britain was less wealthy than it is now, but it
> was also less complacent, and considerably less useless. It had a
> sense of humanitarian responsibility........."
Yes, They struck me as well, but I do wonder what he means by complacent?
If anything, I would have thought that almost-post-imperial Britain was
far more 'complacent' than now.If anything I would think that the
pendulum has swung the other way.
Cheerio,
Graham
'Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at
which one can die.'
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