Bladesover is, I am convinced, the clue toalmost all that is distinctively British and perplexing to the foreigninquirer in England and the English-speaking peoples. Grasp firmly thatEngland was all Bladesover two hundred years ago; that it has hadReform Acts indeed, and such--like changes of formula, but no essentialrevolution since then; that all that is modern and different has come inas a thing intruded or as a gloss upon this predominant formula, eitherimpertinently or apologetically; and you... read more
