To the second group also would belong our most important contributions to foreign languages—the political words. When we find _bill_, _budget_, _committee_, _jury_, _lock-out_, _meeting_, _pamphlet_, _speech_, _strike_, _trade-union_, ... on the Continent, and realize that the modern meanings of European words such as _constitution_, _represent_, _vote_, or of Old French words like _address_, _majority_, _minority_, _motion_, _parliament_, ... are derived from English, we feel ourselves in the presence, not so much of something peculiarly English as of something universal which England has been the means of bringing to earth. That vast theoretical terms like _liberty_, _equality_, and _fraternity_ should be borrowed by England from France in return for _committee_, _jury_, _meeting_, ... that the French _idéalogue_ and _doctrinaire_ should be bartered for _utilitarian_ and _experimental_—these facts have been taken to indicate a certain division of function in the economy of European social evolution, the Frenchman producing the abstract moral ideals and the Englishman attempting to clothe them with reality. And it may be that in such important loan-words as _club_ and _freemason_ and _sport_, but, above all, in _committee_—that sensitive instrument for maintaining the balance as between individual and associative personality—we can perceive the Englishman’s secret: his power of voluntary co-operation, and his innate understanding of the give-and-take it requires. While we can hardly expect to see an undistorted reflection of ourselves in the first group of words mentioned above, yet the grotesque meanings which many of them have acquired abroad are interesting partly for that very reason. They enable us, if studied carefully, to see ourselves not only as others see us, but as others saw us. And from both groups together we can re-create, as Mr. Pearsall Smith has pointed out, something of the curious England which was ‘discovered’ about the middle of the eighteenth century by the rest of Europe, can rejoice with Voltaire in her atmosphere of religious toleration and personal liberty, and admire with Montesquieu her haphazard constitution; we can take back to our native France or Germany romantic and sentimental memories of _le ‘lovely moon’ des Anglois_, or, better still, delving farther into the past, we can stride across the Italian stage in our top boots and our _redingote_, a moody and spleenful English _milord_, liable to commit suicide at any moment.