Looking back to the days before and after the Great War ,
C.E, Montague, in his published work of 1940, ‘Disenchantment;’ casts a longing
eye over those days of hope and expectation.
“Those who tried to put the clock back merely found that it
no longer told the time. The Edwardian Epoch, which continued in essentials
until the First World War, was found when hostilities had ceased, to have
receded into the background of history. It was as remote as the ‘Ancien Regime’
after the Napoleonic Wars. In many ways
our own world is a better one, and yet it is hard to resist a certain nostalgia
for a period when a least some people took it for granted, that the world was a
pleasant place to live in a saw no reason why the ‘good time’ should not go on
forever.”
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