The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.