... mechanic must know about the insides of a motor car. And, continuing with the simile, perhaps you will remember the way Joseph Conrad opened Chance, when he had the old sea captain say: Why! If I navigated my ship with the ignorance born of complacency ...

... perhaps the finest as it was the final example. The weather at Trafalgar, as a master alike of prose and of seamanship, Joseph Conrad, has written, was not unfavourable, it was dangerous. For some forty minutes the fate of the great battle hung upon a ...