CHAPTER XXIX
The brigadier and myself remained behind to discuss the general bearings of this unexpected event.
“ Your rigid demand for motives, my good sir,” I remarked, “reduces the Leaplow political morality very much, after all, to the level of the social-stake system of our part of the world.”
“ They both depend on the crutch of personal Interests, it is true; though there is, between them, the difference of the interests of a part and of the interests of the whole.”
“ And could a part act less commendably than the whole appear to have acted in this instance?”
“ You forget that Leaplow, just at this moment, is under a moral eclipse. I shall not say that these eclipses do not occur often, but they occur quite as frequently in other parts of the region, as they occur here.
