Lamentability

Mr. Bush . . ., noting first the lamentability of public violence against property(!) and holding responsible, once again, those black bodies on the street.

Clearly, it is this imbalance, and not the procreative revolution that it provokes, that constitutes the lamentability of this future for Forster's narrator.

The judge's wretchedness is a reflex of Augustine's skepticism about the possibility of justice in this world, and his deep conviction about the genuine lamentability of law's serious imperfections.