nerves. The average Briton is now not at all
stolid underneath; I think he has changed a
great deal in this last century, owing to the
town life which seven-tenths of our population
lead. Perhaps only of the Briton may one
still invent the picture which appeared in
Punch in the autumn of 1914--of the steward
on a battleship asking the naval lieutenant:
"Will you take your bath before or after the
engagement, sir?" and only among Britons
overhear one stoker say to another in the heat
of a sea-fight: "Well, wot I say is--'E ought
to 'ave married 'er." For all that, the Briton
feels deeply; and on those who have fought the
experiences of the battlefield have had an ef-
fect which almost amounts to metamorphosis.
There are now two breeds of British people--
such as have been long in the danger zones,
and such as have not; shading, of course, into
each other through the many who have just
smelled powder and peril, and the very few
whose imaginations are vibrant enough to have
lived the two lives, while only living one.

In a certain cool paper called: "The Balance-
sheet of the Soldier Workman" I tried to come

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