phrase could be applied to an extent to his daughters, who embrace ideals without considering them in a realistic, practical context. It is this attitude which leads to the women's failure in helping Leonard Bast, interference that contributes to his eventual untimely death. Forster also makes the point, through Margaret, the more down-to-earth sister, that the 'will to vision' alone cannot support any human being – it is their "islands of money" that keep the Schlegels afloat.
             It is for this reason that Margaret suggests in her debating group that the best way to support the less fortunate is to " 'give them money'" rather than to give " 'driblets'" such as "free libraries...a third-return ticket to Venice" which, though representative of the ideals of her socially-conscious friends, do nothing to address the central problem for these people – that money is "the warp of civilisation". It is the Wilcoxes, though bereft of 'vision&apos
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