DEVELOPING WILL-POWER .

front—the limpet. This is a new word, and
a very expressive one. It means the man who
is more anxious to get than to do—the man
who wants a berth rather than a job—the man
who is a pauper by temperament—who clings
to a firm or a Government as a limpet clings
to a rock.

There are all sorts of limpets—rich ones and
poor ones—men and women—rvicars and Dukes
and labourers and clerks and dole-takers and
landowners and strikers and idle wives. All
these may or may not be limpets.
The limpet is the man who adds to the
national burden. He is supported by rates or
royalties or other people. He doesn’t earn what
he gets, and he doesn’t want to earn it. He
wants to be fed and clothed and housed at
other people’s expense.
He is a human lap-dog—that’s what a limpet
is. And at a time like this, when we are battling
against hunger and cold and bankruptcy—
when we are toiling to preserve our lives and
our liberties, no one can have any respect for a
limpet. The hour has come when England
expects every mar to be a lion.
We have a great Task—we British. We have
the whole world on our hands, now that every
great problem has become international. We
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