Shelock Holmes - 1943

Found this lovely quote from an old 1943 Sherlock Holmes movie

I'm currently getting through Wilkinson & Pickett's 'The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Well-being' when I came across this lovely quote from the 1943 movie Sherlock Holmes Faces Death.

Sherlock Holmes Faces Death is the sixth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films

Just to put it into context (and to explain what I find interesting about it) I will include the preceding paragraph as well:

"A glimpse of how the downward trend in inequality before, during and after the Second World War percolated through popular culture can be seen in a 1943 Sherlock Holmes film. Once justice has been served, the beautiful heroine chooses to pass up her inheritance for the benefit of her tenant farmers. Holmes, hardly a radical in Conan Doyle's books, explains to Watson:

Holmes:

'There's a new spirit abroad in the land. The old days of grab and greed are on their way out. We're beginning to think what we owe the other fellow - not just what we are compelled to give him. The time is coming, Watson, when we shan't be able to fill our bellies in comfort while other folk go hungry, or sleep in warm beds while others shiver in the cold. And we shan't be able to kneel and thank God for blessings before shining alters while men anywhere are kneeling in either physical or spiritual subjection.'

Watson:

'You may be right Holmes - I hope you are.'

Holmes:

'And God willing, we will live to see that day, Watson.'"
~Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett, 'The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Well-being'