...COMPROMISE "If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory." — Benjamin Disraeli "Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise...limitations, no barrier to the creative activity." — Bertrand Russell "From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise....

...practical Mmita1 This passage was pointed oat to me by Professor Gilbert Murray, tions, no terrier to the creative activity embodying in splendid edifices...from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of mature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos, where pure thought can dwell...

...Symonds, loc. cit. p. 520. Compare Bertrand Russell in Mysticism and Logic (1932), p. 61: "Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise...from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos, where pure thought can dwell...