Their temperament, turned alternately to and from the South, in which from time to time the Provencal and Ligurian blood froths over, preserves them from the dreadful, northern grey in grey, from sunless conceptual spectrism and from poverty of blood our infirmity of taste, for the excessive prevalence of which at the present moment, blood and iron, that is to say high politics, has with great resolution been prescribed (according to a dangerous healing art, which bids me wait and wait, but not yet hope).