Abstract

In the Driftway

When Woodrow Wilson was Governor of New Jersey he was quoted as saying that experts are generally fakers. He had learned this, he said, in Princeton University. A good school, no doubt, in which to come by such wisdom, but there are others. It is pathetic how many men and women there are who can talk or act intelligently in regard to nearly every subject except the one in which their own pretensions or the flattery of ill-advised friends has set them up as experts. There are numerous clergymen who are delightful conversationalists on sport or literature, but are insufferable coxcombs when they launch upon theology, there are plenty of soldiers whose opinions on politics or pain ling are entertaining but whose ideas on war give one a stomach-ache.