us with, and its greatest need is for we cannot furnish it with, our ne bowed under labor's yoke. Our only emancipation lies in finding some of est goods in fields not under labor's other words, to live at all, in any pe equanimity and longanimity, we n little materialistic in temper and des sible. We must teach our childre greatest goods are not the things t labor produces. That is not only t self-preservation. Labor will have cars and the delicacies of the table, and the joy-rides; we must see to keep something else, and learn to f portance of our treasure. If we ca a prestige value for the things of (frankly, I doubt if we can) "the lor hands" may come to desire the thing chosen, and help to make them acce we must be careful to make no conce must not take one step, ourselves, terialistic direction.

—which waits mine. His wife food they can understand, by of the Food ery class of the in the way of labor. That is hed by appeal poor, and they e knowledge to -bidden gastro apparently-in f honor to help is so necessary h has never in ttered, so kow nean that; it is it I mean pres obably believes ts own leaders work, and conig-but it will blic, a price it

This is not snobbishness; it is a [13]

make an almost religious brotherhood. s our children who matter, and we canin too soon to prepare them for a world has nothing in common with the world w. Only by joining in utmost effort with e-minded can we hope to protect them. ow there are Utopians who see in the ation of Anglo-Saxon governments hope, Marxian lines, for Anglo-Saxondom. oresee, I suppose, the kind of Paradise e Admirable Crichton (in Barrie's imand delightful play) must have experion the desert island. There is going to y one party in England, Mr. Arthur son has recently said the Labor party. be. Let us hope that some of the “und leaders" will at least preserve logic do not preserve majorities. Mr. Hens own argument is about as convincing gh one should say: in certain abnormal ons martial law is the only régime that ork; therefore, since civil law has been inadequate to conditions of riot and ce and famine, we must give it up her, and make martial law perpetual.

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perception or logic is something we shall not be though-let us not deceive ourselves have to make sacrifices to keep it. acquire logic, we may have it. It : creasingly difficult to maintain the acquiring it: the best education, intellectual, was becoming endange ́the war, and there is no telling wh come of it afterward.

I seem to have wandered far a plumbing; and yet plumbing (as a materialistic comfort) is more than the question. The group whose pro concerned with is a very large or always, anywhere, a minority: the p man, the man in the smaller busines the man on a salary, who has bee bred, and who can never look forw real financial fortune. I do not inc one who has to economize strictly, f proportion of the people who have mize strictly are totally uneducated values. But distinctly I include any mentioned who are alive to somethi

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anything but paid mercenaries in the

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are we going to save, for our children r children's children, the real amenities ? Hitherto the new millionaires, for reaf social prestige, have tended to link Ives to the group of the civilized. But w millionaire has always been an indicase, and has, therefore, had to make ions to the group already established. we have never had before is the prosuddenly becoming, overnight, in its mbers, at once richer and more powerful lly than the little "educated" aristocWe all know what happens when that s; if we have forgotten the French tion (and since 1914 a good many of us we have the Russian Revolution to us. In this morning's newspaper I saw e daily bread ration in Petrograd was If a pound for the proletariat, one-eighth ound for the bourgeoisie. That may or ot be true, but there is nothing in known O make it incredible. Even granting that [16]

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