The hereditary types, paranœa, etc., as a rule, decreased, but insane inventors were especially numerous, and this fact is readily explained ; for the time being the healthy idea of fighting the foreign foe dominated the insane conceptions of most paranœacs, but the insane idea of fighting him by inventions was directly suggested, so that this type of paranœacs found themselves out of accord with their surroundings, and were regarded as insane.

I ain't going to have him a-coming here any more asking me to go for his dirty pots of four-ale and screws of tobacco[…]

Coolie-identity is as much the product of self-perception as it is the construction of a category by those who did not belong to it. It is these constructions that historically constituted a coolie in the matrix of power relations which this essay seeks to partially comprehend.

We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.