WHAT NOT
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A PROPHETIC COMEDY
BY ROSE MACAULAY
AUTHOR OF "NON-COMBATANTS," "THE MAKING OF A BIGOT," ETC.
LONDON CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD. 1918
TO CIVIL SERVANTS I HAVE KNOWN
"Wisdom is very unpleasant to the unlearned: he that is without understanding will not remain with her. She will lie upon him as a mighty stone of trial; and he will cast her from him ere it be long. For wisdom is according to her name, and she is not manifest unto many....
"Desire not a multitude of unprofitable children...."
Jesus, Son of Sirach, c. B.C. 150.
"It's domestickness of spirit, selvishnesse, which is the great let to Armies, Religions, and Kingdomes good."
W. Greenhill, 1643.
"It has come to a fine thing if people cannot live in their homes without being interfered with by the police.... You are upsetting the country altogether with your Food Orders and What Not."
Defendant in a Food-hoarding Case, January, 1918.