The Greatest Englishman

``...it had been well that men of honour and birth had entered into these employments, but why do they not appear? Who would have hindered them? But seeing it was necessary the work must go on, better plain men than none.’'

The total pragmatist. Warts and all.

Was he the greatest englishman? These are silly questions of course, but they can concentrate our minds on who did things that matter. William Morris (an old Marlburian like your humble correspondent and his father and grandfather(!!)) created an entire sensibility, and it is not given to many to do that—particularly not to an Englishman (the Anglo-Saxons have no taste). How about Blake? Dowland? Newton?

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