The drift inside has become very solidit would take weeks of work to clear it.

In the concluding stanza of the last completed canto, beginning Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, on the horizon's verge we have a condensation of the refrain of the poet's philosophy; but the main drift of the later books is a satire on London society.

To this our Text adde you what glosse you please; The secret drifts of Kings are depthlesse Seas.

" "Drifting is action, the most decisive kind of action."

The drift away from specialization may not be disasters today or tomorrow, especially, if there are no competitors who are specialists, but the inevitable result will be the burial of the "dead" organization when a real competitor comes into the field.

'Oh, what shall I do?' said I, and cried and shouted for helpfor the snaw fell sae fast, and the drift was sae terrible, that I was feared that, even if he werena dead, he wad be smothered and buried up before I could ride to Glanton and back.

The drift towards Rome had not yet become an unmanageable rush; and though there were cases in which nothing could have stopped its course, there is no reason to doubt that generous and equitable dealing, a more considerate reasonableness, a larger and more comprehensive judgment of facts, and a more patient waiting for strong first impressions to justify and verify themselves, would have averted much mischief.