It’s sort of an insinuendo, as Matt King says, that your mind could stand a good deal of improving and not hurt it any.

Both Mr. Luthuli and Miss Jabavu are South Africans; Mr. Braithwaite is a Guianese from British Guiana.

Prevenge: the act of getting one's retaliation in first.

1682, John Dryden, Religio Laici