As my education had been of the typical Irish kind, and the ideas on which I had been nourished were precisely the ideas that once in Tara's Hall were regarded as dangerous novelties, SNT George staggered me with the sense of being suddenly bumped up against a thing which lay centuries ahead of the time I had been born into.
"A Christmas Garland"
Max Beerbohm
SNT George is, of course, myself.
"A Christmas Garland"
Max Beerbohm