Excerpt from The Fruits of Folly<br><br>And he understands his race. No one has given a better summary of one side of our national character than did Mr. Baldwin when he said: We grumble, and we have always grumbled, but we never worry. There are nations which do not grumble but worry the Englishman has a mental reserve owing to that gift given to him at his birth by St. George, so that by the absence of worry he keeps his nervous system sound and sane, with the result that in times of emergency the nervous system stands, when the nervous system of other peoples breaks. The Englishman is made for a time of crisis and for a time of emergency. He is serene in difficulties, but may seem to be indifferent when times are easy. He may not look ahead, he may not heed warnings, he may not prepare but when he once starts he is persistent to the death.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.