“Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.”

— H. G. Wells, book The Soul of a Bishop

The Soul of a Bishop (1917)

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