This is, I believe, a true indictment against the age in which our lot is cast, although the utterance has just that touch of exaggeration which secures a hearing for unpalatable truth. But the man who wrote it left out of account that redeeming element in our national life which I have discussed in this closing chapter. After all, there is a world-wide difference between the "Majority" and the "Remnant,"--and the ten righteous men may yet save the guilty city. POSTSCRIPT _The bulk of this book appeared in the "Manchester Guardian," and my thanks are due to Mr. C. P. Scott for permission to reproduce it. The last twelve chapters were originally published under the title, "For Better? For Worse?" and they reappear by the kind consent of Mr. Fisher Unwin._ _G. W. E. R._ _Twelfth Night, 1907._ Printed by BALLANTYNE, HANSON & CO. Edinburgh & London TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: --Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. End of Project Gutenberg's Seeing and Hearing, by George W. E. Russell