There is not a piece of constructive legislation in the world, not a solitary attempt to meet a complicated problem, that we do
not now regard the more charitably for our efforts to get a right result from this apparently easy and puerile business of
fighting with tin soldiers on the floor.
That’s a little opaque… I think he means: ‘These war games seem like very easy problems but are actually very hard; so legislation or proposals which tackle hard problems are probably tackling really hard problems, and failure is to be expected.’
-- Little Wars (H. G. Wells)
That’s a little opaque… I think he means: ‘These war games seem like very easy problems but are actually very hard; so legislation or proposals which tackle hard problems are probably tackling really hard problems, and failure is to be expected.’