Other men, repelled, perhaps, by such logical grouping of cold facts, but attracted by the satirical delights of _Emmanuel Burden_ or _Mr. Clutterbuck_, of _Pongo and the Bull_ or _A Change in the Cabinet_, were led to like conclusions, and came to consider themselves adherents of Mr. Belloc's political views. Take another instance. Bloodless students of history, absorbing the past for the sake of the past and not for the sake of the present, who knew little of Mr. Belloc's attitude toward the politics of the day and strongly disapproved of what little they did know, yet concerned themselves with his historical method as applied in _Danton_, _Robespierre_ or _Marie Antoinette_, and were mildly excited by _The French Revolution_ into a discussion of what (to Mr. Belloc's horror) they considered his _Weltanschauung_. There are but one or two examples of cases in which men of different types came to a partial knowledge of Mr. Belloc and his work through their sympathy with the views he expressed. But far beyond and above the appeal which Mr. Belloc has made on occasion to the political and historical sense of his readers is the appeal which he has made consistently to their literary sense in _The Path to Rome_, in _The Four Men_, in _Avril_, in _The Bad Child's Book of Beasts_, in _Esto Perpetua_--in his novels, his essays, his poems. If many have been attracted by his views, how many more have been influenced by his expression of them? "A man desiring to influence his fellowmen," says Mr. Belloc, in _The French Revolution_, "has two co-related instruments at his disposal.... These two instruments are his idea and his style. However powerful, native, sympathetic to his hearers' mood or cogently provable by reference to new things may be a man's idea, he cannot persuade his fellowmen to it if he have not words that express it. And he will persuade them more and more in proportion as his words are well-chosen and in the right order, such order being determined by the genius of the language from which they are drawn." These words fitly emphasize the importance of style: and when a distinction is drawn, as is done above, between the appeal which Mr. Belloc has made to the political and historical sense of his readers and the appeal he has made to their literary sense, it is, naturally, not intended to suggest that an appeal to his readers' literary sense is in any way lacking in Mr. Belloc's political and historical writings. The appeal to our literary sense is as strong in _The Servile State_ or _Danton_ as in _The Four Men_ or _Mr. Clutterbuck_. But in the one case, in the case of the two last-named books, the appeal Mr. Belloc makes is chiefly to our literary sense: in the other case, in the case of the two first-named books, there is added to the appeal to our literary sense an appeal to our political and historical sense.