ufficiently indicated, though in truth I have
merely scratched the surface of this international menace--demonstrate
our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism. No industrial corporation
could maintain its existence upon such a foundation. Yet hardheaded
"captains of industry," financiers who pride themselves upon their
cool-headed and keen-sighted business ability are dropping millions
into rosewater philanthropies and charities that are silly at best and
vicious at worst. In our dealings with such elements there is a
bland maladministration and misuse of huge sums that should in all
righteousness be used for the development and education of the healthy
elements of the community.

At the present time, civilized nations are penalizing talent and genius,
the bearers of the torch of civilization, to coddle and perpetuate
the choking human undergrowth, which, as all authorities tell us, is
escaping control and threatens to overrun the whole garden of humanity.
Yet men continue to drug themselves with the opiate of optimism, or
sink back upon the cushions of Christian resignation, their intellectual
powers anaesthetized by cheerful platitudes. Or else, even those, who
are fully cognizant of the chaos and conflict, seek an escape in those
pretentious but fundamentally fallacious social philosophies which place
the blame for contemporary world misery upon anybody or anything except
the indomitable but uncontrolled instincts of living organisms. These
men fight with shadows and forget the realities of existence. Too many
centuries have we sought to hide from the inevitable, which confronts us
at every step throughout life.

Let us conceive for the moment at least, a world not burdened by the
weight of dependent and delinquent classes, a total population of
mature, intelligent, critical and expressive men and women. Instead
of the inert, exploitable, mentally passive class which now forms the
barren substratum of our civilization, try to imagine a population
active, resistant, passing individual and social lives of the most
contented and healthy sort. Would such men and women, liberated from
our endless, unceasing struggle against mass prejudice and inertia, be
deprived in any way of the stimulating zest of life? Would they sink
into a slough of complacency and fatuity?

No! Life for them would be enriched, intensified and ennobled in a
fashion it is difficult for us in our spiritual and physical squalor
even to imagine. T