A king of France--so runs the medieval legend--when travelling in Catalonia, discovered an ancient man engaged unremittingly in the planting of date-kernels. “Why?” he asked, “do you sow the seeds of a tree of such tardy growth, seeing that the dates will not ripen till a hundred years be passed?” “Am I not then eating,” was the answer, “the fruit of trees planted by my forefathers, who took thought for those who were to come? And shall not I do like unto them?”[31] It may be that the men “who took thought for those who were to come” will be found upon the winning side. FOOTNOTES: [1] F. M. Hueffer in “The Spirit of the People,” a clever and suggestive analysis of Middle Class England. [2] _The Island Pharisees. J. Galsworthy._ [3] _At the Works. Lady Bell._ [4] _A Poor Man’s House. Stephen Reynolds._ [5] _The Town Child. R. A. Bray._ [6] _Towards Social Reform. Canon and Mrs. Barrett._ [7] _New Worlds for Old. H. G. Wells._ [8] _Socialism. R. C. Ensor._ [9] _Report of H.M. Factory Inspectors, 1907._ [10] _Report of the Committee on Truck, 1909._ [11] _Kipps. By H. G. Wells._ [12] _Report of Parliamentary Committee on Home Work, 1908._ To-day in Parliament a “Trades’ Boards Bill” seems at last to offer a way towards remedy. [13] _C. L. Marson in The “Commonwealth._” [14] _The Ruin of Rural England._ [15] _D. C. Pedder. Where Men Decay._ [16] _Before the Great Pillage. Dr. Jessop._ [17] _England a Nation._ [18] Tolstoy, _Fortnightly Review_, February 1909. [19] _Modernism and Romance. By R. A. Scott James._ The whole book forms a very interesting study of the possibilities of the survival of “Romance” in the modern world. [20] _Modernism and Romance._ [21] In a volume of essays, _In Peril of Change_. [22] _Tono-Bungay. By H. G. Wells._ [23] _John Bull’s Other Island. G. Bernard Shaw._ [24] _A Century of Meditations. Thomas Treherne._ [25] See _The Story of My Heart_. _By Richard Jefferies._ [26] _England a Nation._ [27] _Life and Labour of the People. Religious Influences._ [28] _Christianity and the Working Classes_, edited by George Haw. [29] _The War in the Air. By H. G. Wells._ [30] In these summaries and quotations I have used the excellent translation of Mr. A. W. Evans’s _Penguin Island_ (John Lane). [31] _Gentlemen Errant. Mrs. Cust._ INDEX Airships, 217 American wealth, 30; athletics, 135; diseased activity, 136; begging in, 182, 183 Aristocracy, intellectual failure of, 28 Arnold, Matthew, quotation from, 6, 14, 25, 219, 265 Baby, crying, 187 Bagehot, 30, 284 “Bankruptcy of Science,” 213 Barnett, Canon, 141, 274 Bell, Lady, _At the Works_, 106, 107, 109 Belloc, 19, 240 Birmingham, Bishop of, 88 Blake, 244 Bonfield, Miss, 168 “Boodler” not disapproved, 153 Booth, Charles, on religion in London, 268 Bray, Reginald, “The Town Child,” 136, 139 Butler, 265 Butler, Samuel, 283 Canyon, Arizona, 286