executive and legislative departments, but a department
made up of men of vision to create, conceive and reconceive, go deeper
and see further than law and restraints can go, does not exist in our
Government.

We have a Judicial Department to decide on whether what is born has a
right to live--a Legislative Department to pass rules under on how it
shall be obliged to live--and an Executive Department to make it
mind--but the department to create and to conceive for the people is
lacking.

Government at best is practically a dear uncle or dear maiden-aunt
institution.

Government as a physical expression is without functions of reproduction.

Government--contrary to the theory of the Germans--from the point of view
of sheer power in projecting and determining the nature and well-being of
men--the fate of men and the world--is superficial, is a staid,
standardized, unoriginal affair--devoted to ready-made ideas like the Red
Cross during the war.

This is what is the matter with a Government's posing in this or any
other nation as a live body for the people.

The spontaneous uprising of business men during the war--the spectacle of
the dollar a year men overwhelming and taking over the government, the
breaking in of the National Council of Defense--the spontaneous
combustion of millions of free individuals into one colossal unit like
the Red Cross--all the other outbreaks of the creative vital power of the
superior people of the nation, all point to the fact that when new brain
tracks are called for, the natural irresistible way is to find individual
persons who have them, who make them catching to other individual
persons, and who then give body to them across the nation.

Its whole nature and action of a Government tend to make Government and
most of the people in it mechanical.

In the nature of things and especially in the nature of human nature,
this nation--if its new ideas and its new brain tracks are to come to
anything at all, they must have a spontaneous willful and comparatively
free origin and organization of their own.

Hence the Look-Up Club cooeperating with the Try-Out Club to act as an
informal Imagination Department for the United States.

V

THE TRY-OUT CLUB TRIES OUT

Sec. 1. _I_ + _You_ = _We._

If Darius the Great had put the eunuchs of his court in charge as Special
Commissioners for controlling the social evil in Babylon, they would have
made very sad work of what they had t