prejudice passes for patriotism. Now, as then, we are guided by the emotions of the pack, particularly by its instinct for violence. Now, as then, we think of the sword as the ultimate arbiter; we think of force as the instrument by which Right is finally enthroned. In one respect alone has the scene changed. Modern science has revolutionized, not man, but his world. It has made his old ideas infinitely more dangerous. It has taken away his flintlock musket and his firebrand and given him instead machine guns and poison gas. It has brought him into intimate contact with his neighbours, and exposed him to all the irritations that arise from propinquity. It has extended his field of selfinterest so that in the pursuit of happiness and even of life he collides with his fellows on the other side of the globe. But further than this, science has not gone. To man himself it has brought no change. He remains as he was-a creature of passion, with the old fire ablaze in his eyes, fingering the new implements by which his irritation and self-interest can now be expressed in cataclysmic slaughter. What do we see as we look into the future? Is there sanity enough in the world to handle the weapons which science is so fast creating? Is there intelligence enough to employ them not for destruction but for the building up of an abundant life for mankind? Is there time enough to develop a technique of tolerance and self-control? What use will the old savage make of his new civilization? THE END CHAPTER I REFERENCES Note 1 Page 3 Quoted by Albert J. Beveridge in The Life of John Marshall (1919), Vol. III, p. 55 (footnote). Note 2 Page 19 Statistical Abstract of United States Census (1924), pp. 85-106. Note 3 Page 19 Biennial Survey of Education (1916-18), Vol. III, p. 703. Note 4 Page 20 H. L. Hollingworth, Mental Growth and Decline (1927), pp. 274ff. Note 5 Page 24 Frederick Soddy, Science and Life (1920), p. 36. Note 6 Page 25 Winston Churchill, "Shall We Commit Suicide?" Nash's Pall Mall Magazine (September 24, 1924). CHAPTER II Note 1 Page 57 R. H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society (1920), p. 183. Note 2 Page 58 Ramsay H. Muir, America the Golden Note 3 Page 60 George Bernard Shaw, from the Preface to CHAPTER III Note 1 Page 66 Ralph Borsodi, The Distribution Age (1927), p. 44. Note 2 Page 66 Note 3 Page 77 Garet Garrett, Ouroboros (1926), p. 32. W. Trotter, Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War (1916), p. 115. Note 4 Page 79 Walter Lippmann, "Why Should the Majority Rule?" Harper's Magazine (March, 1926). Note 5 Page 82 Bertrand and Dora Russell, Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923), p. 262. Note 6 Page 85 George W. Martin, "The Duty of Rebellion," The Groton School Quarterly (December, 1925). Note 7 Page 91 Clifford, quoted by Frederick J. Teggart in The Processes of History (1918), p. 130. Note 8 Page 92 Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (1926), p. 291. CHAPTER IV Note 1 Page 96 Count Hermann Keyserling, The World in the Making (1927), pp. 157-158. Note 2 Page 98 Calvin Coolidge, "Founder's Day Address," in the New York Times (October 13, 1927). Note 3 Page 111 Samuel Crowther, "Henry Ford: Why I Favor Five Days' Work with Six Days' Pay." (An authorized interview.) World's Note 4 Page 111 André Siegfried, America Comes of Age Note 5 Page 113 Herbert Hoover, from a Printed Address at a Round Table Conference under auspices of the National Civic Federation (April 11, 1925). Note 6 Page 114 Thomas Nixon Carver, The Present Economic Revolution in the United States (1925), p. 59. Note 7 Page 115 Note 8 Page 116 Russell, loc. cit., p. 182. Graham Wallas, The Art of Thought (1926), p. 89. Note 9 Page 123 Arthur Pound, The Iron Man in Industry (1922), p. 207. Note 10 Page 124 Siegfried, loc. cit., p. 349. |