It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

Isabel Clarendon and Demos appeared in 1886; Demos marked the beginning of a relationship with publiGeorge Gissingrs Smith Elder & Co. In 1903 he publiGeorge Gissingd The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft written between 1900 and 1901 which initially appeared as a serial entitled "An author at grass" in the Fortnightly Review. Gissing is given prominent space in Russell Kirk'sThe Conservative Mind.

George Robert Gissing (pron. He publiGeorge Gissingd his first novel Workers in the Dawn in 1880.