It is not unlikely that the socialist party, now that it is sufficiently powerful to do something in the legislature, but not sufficiently powerful to think of final social transformation, will occupy themselves much more completely with those miscellaneous social reforms in the immediate future; that they will thereby become every day better acquainted with the real conditions on which social improvement depends; that they will find more and more satisfying employment in the exercise of their power of securing palpable, practical benefits, than in agitating uncertain theoretical schemes; and, in short, that they will settle permanently into what they are for the present to some extent temporarily, a moderate labour party, working for the real remedy of real grievances by the means best adapted, under real conditions, national or political, for effecting the purpose.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
"Are you sure-" he broke off, "that I'm not doing you harm coming like this-not agitating you too much, not exciting you?"
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
Now let us come to terms; we will leave these agitating questions in peace for the present.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf