On the whole, they are prepared for the gradual disentanglement of men from the Normal Social Life altogether, and they look for new ways of living and new methods of human association with a certain adventurous hopefulness.

No sane man, German or anti-German, who has weighed the prospects of the new age, will be desirous of a restoration of the now vanished German colonial empire, vindictive, intriguing, and unscrupulous, a mere series of centres of attack upon adjacent territory, to complicate the immense disentanglements and readjustments that lie already before the French and British and Italians.

As always happened in those days, his own accounts were mixed up with those of the Company, and would require laborious disentanglement.

I question profoundly whether the word "science," in current usage anyhow, ever means such patient disentanglement as Darwin pursued.