And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

Early adult life
Bryant started work at a school operated by the London County Council where he developed a strong sense of social justice and became convinced that education would be an effective way of uniting the people. P. 7 million words for that magazine.

Bryant's historiography was often based on an English romantic exceptionalism drawn from his nostalgia for an idealized agrarian past. His books included studies of Samuel Pepys accounts of English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history and a life of George V.