But the disturbance of London in the eighties had effected a concentration ...

But the disturbance of London in the eighties had effected a concentration of interest upon poverty, its grounds, and

incidents and consequences,

which could not again be relaxed. That there was something wrong, whether it was remediable or not, everyone had always known.

But now they had seen it, and the sight left many of them asking whether it was remediable without organic change, not in the political but in the economic system. They asked: and we have not yet heard the answer.

That they could ask, and at least project an answer, shows how profoundly the attitude of the thoughtful classes to the State and its problems had changed.

And yet the change was natural, and explicable.

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