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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
·
George Gissing
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One
of
the
facts
particularly
clear
to
them
is
the
suitability
to
their
minds,
their
tempers,
their
habits,
of
a
system
of
polity
which
has
been
established
by
the
slow
effort
of
generations
within
this
sea-girt
realm.
They
have
nothing
to
do
with
ideals:
they
never
trouble
themselves
to
think
about
the
Rights
of
Man.
If
you
talk
to
them
(long
enough)
about
the
rights
of
the
shopman,
or
the
ploughman,
or
the
cat's-meat-man,
they
will
lend
ear,
and,
when
the
facts
of
any
such
case
have
been
examined,
they
will
find
a
way
of
dealing
with
them.
This
characteristic
of
theirs
they
call
Common
Sense.
To
them,
all
things
considered,
it
has
been
of
vast
service;
one
may
even
say
that
the
rest
of
the
world
has
profited
by
it
not
a
little.
That
Uncommon
Sense
might
now
and
then
have
stood
them
even
in
better
stead
is
nothing
to
the
point.
The
Englishman
deals
with
things
as
they
are,
and
first
and
foremost
accepts
his
own
being.
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