I am not fed on turtle soup and Tokay because of my exquisite intimacy
with the style and idiom of Heine and Richter. The English governing
class is fed on turtle soup and Tokay to represent the past, of which
it is literally ignorant, as I am of German irregular verbs; and to
represent the religious traditions of the State, when it does not know
three words of theology, as I do not know three words of German.
This is the last insult offered by the proud to the humble. They rule
them by the smiling terror of an ancient secret. They smile and smile;
but they have forgotten the secret.