Further: feeble, Expectative and vacillating minds, deprived of the faculty to embrace in all its depth and extension the task before them,-such minds cannot have a clear purpose, nor the firm perception of ways and means leading to the aim, and still less have they the sternness of conviction so necessary for men dealing with such mighty events, on which depend the life and death of a society.
"Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862"
Adam Gurowski
"We are preserving," they say, "a dignified Expectative attitude."
"Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris"
Henry Labouchère