The teaching profession were only then sowing broadcast the seed
which was to come to maturity thirty years later. They were
moulding the minds of the rising generation to the ideals which
find their most candid exponent in Nietzsche. The seed was sown,
but had not yet germinated; the greater portion of Germany in 1875
was still un-Prussianised, but effect followed cause, and we all
know the rest.
CHAPTER VII
Some London beauties of the "seventies"--Great ladies--The
Victorian girl--Votaries of the Gaiety Theatre--Two witty ladies--
Two clever girls and mock-Shakespeare--The family who talked
Johnsonian English--Old-fashioned tricks of pronunciation--
Practical jokes--Lord Charles Beresford and the old Club-member--
The shoe-less legislator--Travellers' palms--The tree that spouted
wine--Celyon's spicy breezes--Some reflections--Decline of public
interest in Parliament--Parliamentary giants--Gladstone, John
Bright, and Chamberlain--Gladstone's last speech--His resignation
--W.H. Smith--The Assistant Whips--Sir William Hart-Dyke--Weary
hours at Westminster--A Pseudo-Ingoldsbean Lay.
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