Part 16 (1/2)

Easily assu with things outer and visible while taking little if any account of the inner lights of the soul Thus it inorance; makes fakers of soine of oppression, a corrupt influence; in religion where not a zealot, a promoter of cant In short the self-appointed apostle of uplift, who disregarding individual character would make virtue a matter of statute law and ordain uniformity of conduct by act of conventicle or assembly, is likelier to produce moral chaos than to reach the subliestion is full of startling possibilities Individualism was the discovery of the fathers of the American Republic It is the bedrock of our political philosophy Human slavery was assuredly an indefensible institution But the armed enforcement of freedom did not make a blackto control the food and drink and dress of the people er lurks and is bound to come with the inevitable reaction

The levity of the men is recruited by the folly of the women The leaders of feminism would abolish sex To what end? The pessimist anshat easier than the deone entirely ineries of destruction Civil war in America; universal hara-kiri in Europe; the dry rot of wealth wasting itself in self-indulgence Then a thousand years of total eclipse Finally Macaulay's Australian surveying the ruins of St Paul's Cathedral froe; and a Mosle froton upon the desolation of as once the District of Columbia Shall the end be an Oriental renaissance with the philosophies of Buddha, Moha itself as the last word of science, reason and common sense?

Alas, and alack the day! In those places where the suffering rich ate the words of Watts' hymn have constant application:

_For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do_

When they have not gone skylarking or grown tired of bridge they devote their leisure to organizing clubs other than those of the uplift There are all sorts, fro Suits at the seaside resorts to the League at Mewville for the Care of Disabled Cats Most of these clubs are all officers and no privates That is what race? One who surveys the scene can scarcely think so

But the whirl goes on; the yachts sweep proudly out to sea; the auto cars dash h the streets; more and darker and deeper do the contrasts of life show the shall it be when the mudsill millions take the upper ten thousand by the throat and rend them as the furiosos of the Terror in France did the aristocrats of the _Regime Ancien_? The issue between capital and labor, for exa heat and hate Who shall say that, let loose in the crowded centers of population, it ulf us all?

Is this rank pessi back into second childhood, who does not see that the world is wiser and better than ever it was, mankind and womankind, surely on the way to perfection?

V

One thing is certain: We are not standing still Since ”Adam delved and Eve span”--if they ever did--in the Garden of Eden, ”sos on” in the Garden of the Gods directly under Pike's Peak--the earth we inhabit has at no time and nowhere wanted for liveliness--but surely it was never livelier than it now is; as the space-writer says, uidebooks, quite so ”picturesque and interesting”

Go where one may, on land or sea, he will come upon activities of one sort and another Were Tiht be awakened from his misanthrophy and Jacques, the forest cynic, stirred to sos of a second birth which shall recreate all things anew, supple development of spiritual life; or has it reached the top of the hill, and,doard on the other side into an abyss which the historians of the future will once again call ”the dark ages?”

We know not, and there is none to tell us That which is actually happening were unbelievable if we did not see it, fro horror has in some sort blunted our sensibilities Not only are our syhter and the sorrow, but patriotis thus farour share This will account for a certain indifferentisain encounter

At theourselves--or, is itourselves?--over the revolution in Russia It seein with, for Russia Then the murder war fairly won for the Allies, we are pro peace

The bells that rang out in Petrograd and Moscow sounded, we are told, the death knell of autocracy in Berlin and Vienna The clarion tones that echoed through the Crimea and Siberia, albeit to the ear of thethe shores of the North Sea, and up and down the Danube and the Rhine, yet conveyed a whisperedof freedoone! Perdition having reached the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs, all will be well!”

Anyhow, freedo and solicitous pessi many abuses, administrative and political, federal and local, in our republican syste very visible are most lamentable--may sometimes move us to lose heart of hope in democracy, we know of none better So, let us stand by it; pray for it; fight for it Let us by our example show the Russians how to attain it Let us by the same token show the Germans how to attain it when they come to see, if they ever do, the havoc autocracy has made for Germany That should constitute the bed rock of our politics and our religion It is the true religion Love of country is love of God Patriotision

It is also Christianity The pacifist, let me parenthetically observe, is scarcely a Christian There be technical Christians and there be Christians The technical Christian sees nothing but the blurred letter of the lahich he misconstrues The Christian, anihtful interpretation, serves the Lord alike of heaven and hosts when he flies the flag of his country and sh!

Chapter the Eleventh

Andrew Johnson--The Liberal Convention in 1872--Carl Schurz--The ”Quadrilateral”--Sam Bowles, Horace White and Murat Halstead--A Queer Co the itation in the United States and finally led a kindred people into actual war the idea that got afloat after this war that every Confederate was a Secessionist best served the ends of the radicalisht to reduce the South to a conquered province, and as such to reconstruct it by hostile legislation supported wherever needed by force

Andrew Johnson very well understood that a great majority of the men ere arrayed on the Southern side had taken the field against their better judgh pressure of circumstance They were Unionto the old order Not merely in the Border States did this class rule but in the Gulf States it held a respectable minority until the shot fired upon Sumter drew the call for troops from Lincoln The Secession leaders, who had staked their all upon the hazard, knew that to save their movement from collapse it was necessary that blood be sprinkled in the faces of the people Hence the e from Charleston:

_With cannon, ard_--