Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 231: Or Critical Journal, January, 1920 April, 1920, to Be Continued Quarterly

Nothing is more plainly written on the page of history than the slightness of the connexion between the ideals of social reformers and the social changes which they succeed in effecting. It would, perhaps, be true to say that the loftier the ideal, the more pathetically inadequate the achievement. Nor is the reason obscure.

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