A careful inspection showed them that even if they succeeded in righting it...
Badger hates Society and invitations and dinner and all that sort of thing.
After all the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting...
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise than he was 6000 years ago.