Howards End

if they had delayed hitherto, it was only that they might throw themselves more vehemently in the future.

But the world being what it is, perhaps they shine out in it like stars.

He was not the aggressive German, so dear to the English journalist, nor the domestic German, so dear to the English wit. If one classed him at all it would be as the countryman of Hegel and Kant, as the idealist, inclined to be dreamy, whose Imperialism was the Imperialism of the air.