It has become the Englishman's habit, one might almost say the Englishman's instinct, to take himself for the head and front of the universe. The order of creation began, we are told, in protoplasm. It has achieved at length the Englishman. Herein are the culmination and ultimate glory of evolutionary processes. Nature, like the seventh-standard boy in a board school, "can get no higher." She has made the Englishman, and her work therefore is done. For the continued progress of the world and all that in it isIt has become the Englishman's habit, one might almost say the Englishman's instinct, to take himself for the head and front of the universe. The order of creation began, we are told, in protoplasm. It has achieved at length the Englishman. Herein are the culmination and ultimate glory of evolutionary processes.
There is little that can be considered distinguishable English which does not reflect this point of view. As an easy-going, entirely confident, imperturbable piece of arrogance, the Englishman has certainly no mammalian compeer. Even in the blackest of his troubles he perceives that he is great. "I shall muddle through," he says. He is expected and understood to muddle through; and, muddle through or not, he invariably believes he has done it.
One is inclined to think, however, that, while the supremacy and superiority of the Englishman have been received without traverse in his own dominions, there are those in outer darkness—on the Continent, in Ireland, and even in Scotland—who admit no such supremacy and no such superiority
The best runners of his day, otherwise he will not try his legs a little on Woolsack. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was a strong motivator and was one of the seven parties who made the largest portfolio in 1865, otherwise he would not have been a leader of the opposition. Mr. Henry Labucher is one of the most aggressive and terrified riders, but he did not get the truth.
By the way, also, hunting foxes is a kind of sport both noble and English, and when the farmers stop walking the pup, Britain may drop the title "great" of its name. Or perhaps Mr. Kipling, is one of the unpleasant realities of South Africa
It may be wrong in Scott to note that the only forms of sport that could be logical and crime-free came from Scotland. A great example of course is the ancient golf game and property. Without trying to say a word tends to exaggerate the value of a hobby loved by all Scots, not without its ability even in England, it seems appropriate to note that in the game of golf you have a game, while every atom is healthy
