54 SPORT. 



then indeed we need not wonder if we lose not only 

 our national sports, but our national existence ; and 

 if Divine Providence, giving practical effect to the 

 old quotation, 



Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat, 



allows England, after passing through the phases of 

 insanity which she has already begun to display, to 

 be blotted out from the nations of the world. 



