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is following ? Has Miss Wodehouse considered the 

 question from this aspect ? 



This transcendent and omnipotent " We " appears 

 also to be responsible for that remarkable product 

 of Modern Sentiment called the " Boarding-Out 

 System " of the children of paupers. This " We " 

 believes that the children of congenital paupers 

 and congenital criminals, whose grand- children, let it 

 be remembered, will be also in the main paupers and 

 criminals, can be converted into noble and self- 

 supporting citizens if they have their dinners cooked 

 in copper utensils, if they have more or less costly 

 pictures placed in the passages, bedrooms, and 

 lavatories of the residences they inhabit, and if their 

 washstands are of marble. It also believes that if 

 laws are framed which raise these children into a 

 privileged class, and injElicts heavier fines for physical 

 chastisement of their misdeeds than would be im- 

 posed upon anyone who assaulted the child of an 

 ordinary respectable person, that straightway we 

 are following the path that shall lead to their glory ! 



I will not dwell on this remarkable type of the 

 " We " any farther, though one sorrowfully recognises 

 that its remarkable peregrinations have by no means 

 been traced in all their manifold ramifications. 

 It will suffice for the present to say that Englishmen 

 will one day awake, not to read an article in the 

 Mendel Journal in which scepticism for the " We " 

 is the dominant note, but to find the arms of that 

 " We " stretching around and within their homes, 

 ordering their every deed,_determining their wishes. 



