,,psycho-,,phone ,,messages ,,recorded ,,by ,,francis ,,grierson ,spiritual ,messages from the late ,general ,u4 ,s4 ,grant1 on ,adequate ,preparation in ,america2 ,thomas ,jefferson1 on the ,future of ,american ,democracy2 ,benjamin ,disraeli1 on ,english and ,irish ,affairs2 ,prince ,bismarck1 on the ,indemnities2 ,john ,marshall1 on the ,psychology of the ,supreme ,court of the ,united ,states2 ,alexander ,hamilton1 on the ,forces that ,precede ,revolution2 ,abraham ,lincoln1 on the ,future of ,mexico2 ,robert ,ingersoll1 on ,our ,great ,women2 ,henry ,ward ,beecher1 on the ,new ,puritanism2 ,benjamin ,wade1 of ,ohio1 on ,president ,harding2 ,general ,b4 ,h4 ,grierson1 on ,japan1 ,mexico and ,california1 etc4 ,,psycho-,,phone ,,messages ,,recorded ,,by ,,francis ,,grierson ,published by ,,austin ,,publishing ,,company ,los ,angeles1 ,california ,copyright1 ,june #aiba ,by ,b4 ,f4 ,austin ,,introduction ,the word psycho-phone was first suggested and used by ,mr4 ,francis ,grierson in a lecture ,i heard him deliver before the ,toronto ,theosophical ,society1 ,august #cast1 #aiai1 a year before ,thomas ,edison announced his intention of devising an instrument which he hopes will serve to establish intercourse between our world and the world of spirit4 ,my own experiences as a student in this sphere of psychic research in ,europe and ,america1 covering a period of thirty years1 convince me that we have here a revelation of a new mode of spiritual communication unlike anything heretofore given to the world1 not only different in quality but different in purpose4 ,from personal knowledge ,i can state that the recorder of these messages has not acted on ideas advanced by anyone living on our plane4 ,looking back over the past two decades1 ,i am led to believe that ,mr4 ,grierson's predictions in ,the ,invincible ,alliance1 and in that startling poem1 ,the ,awakening in ,westminster ,abbey1 forecasting the war and the tragic events in ,ireland1 were spiritual and psycho-phonic in character4 ,from #aiji to #aiaa ,francis ,grierson was the acknowledged leading writer on ,the ,new ,age1 of ,london1 which at that time had as contributors1 ,h4 ,g4 ,wells1 ,bernard ,shaw1 ,arnold ,bennett1 the two ,chestertons1 ,hillaire ,belloc--in one word1 all the most prominent writers and advanced thinkers in ,britain1 yet not one of them except ,mr4 ,grierson could see the approaching world upheaval4 ,early in #aiji he published a series of articles in that weekly depicting the coming war1 and nothing of so drastic a nature had ever appeared in an ,english publication4 ,in the spring of #aiac these articles were published in book form in ,london and ,new ,york under the title of ,the ,invincible ,alliance4 ,in the ,westminster ,abbey composition1 published in ,the ,new ,age in #aiaj1 the characteristics of four personalities are plainly manifest--,coleridge1 ,milton1 ,shelley and ,shakespeare--and ,i have not forgotten the sensation caused by this great work in ,london at the time of its appearance4 ,having had occasion to study the social and psychic conditions in ,france1 ,germany1 ,italy1 ,austria and ,england before the great war1 and after having been an eye witness of scenes unique in the annals of musical inspiration in the artistic and literary circles of ,europe as well as the most intellectual of the royal courts1 in which ,mr4 ,grierson was the central figure1 ,i now have a better understanding of the work he accomplished and its far-reaching import4 ,the more complex the work the longer must be the preparation1 and we are now confronted with what will appear to many as the most interesting phase of ,mr4 ,grierson's psychic gifts1 for the seer who ushered in the new mystical movement by the publication of ,modern ,mysticism in #ahii is now the recorder of messages which must induce thinking and unprejudiced minds to pause and consider such matters in a new light1 and it is to be hoped that many more messages like these may be recorded by the same hand4 ,as ,i write1 ,i have before me a unique collection of letters written to ,mr4 ,grierson by men and women eminent in philosophy1 art1 music1 literature and journalism1 in ,europe and ,america4 ,among the letters that ,mr4 ,grierson values the most in this remarkable album are eight from members of the ,french ,academy1 with ,sully ,prudhomme1 winner of the first ,noble ,prize1 heading the list4 ,which reminds me that ,i heard him say one evening in ,paris1 after hearing ,mr4 ,grierson's music3 ,you have placed me on the threshold of the other world4 ,there are not words in the ,french language to express what ,i have felt tonight6 ,up to that moment the famous ,academician had been known as an avowed agnostic4 ,maeterlinck writes that the first ,grierson volume 7in ,french7 influenced him more than any book he had ever read4 ,there are four letters from the ,belgian mystic4 ,this album is filled with expressions from the most authoritative minds in literature and art1 as well as statesmen1 soldiers and diplomats1 such as ,jules ,simon1 the ,duc de ,broglie1 ,lord ,lytton1 ,british ambassador at ,paris2 ,lord ,reading1 ,british ambassador at ,washington2 ,field ,marshall ,lord ,wolseley1 ,general ,b4 ,h4 ,grierson1 ,u4,s4,a41 leading members of the ,bonaparte family in ,paris1 ,prince ,henri of ,orleans 7son of ,louis ,philippe71 ,princess ,eulalia of ,spain1 and crowned heads who gave receptions in ,mr4 ,grierson's honor during the past thirty years4 ,there are letters from distinguished ,americans1 such as ,col4 ,henry ,watterson 7who wrote two long editorials on ,mr4 ,grierson in the ,louisville ,courier ,journal71 ,henry ,mills ,alden1 editor of ,harper's ,monthly1 ,prof4 ,william ,james1 ,marion ,reedy1 ,edwin ,markham1 ,edith ,thomas1 ,mary ,austin1 and many leading professors of ,harvard1 ,yale1 ,columbia1 ,cornell1 the ,universities of ,illinois1 ,wisconsin and ,california4 ,edwin ,bjorkman says1 in his ,voices of ,tomorrow3-- ,to ,francis ,grierson belongs the honor of having first attained to prophetic vision of the common goal4 ,in his first volume1 published in ,paris in #ahhi1 he suggested every idea which since then has become recognized as essential not only to ,bergson and ,maeterlinck but to the constantly increasing number of writers engaged in making the time conscious of its own spirit4 ,as we read essay after essay it is as if we beheld the globe of life revolving slowly between us and some unknown source of light4 ,the following remarks from the ,london ,outlook seem to me pertinent to the subject3-- ,grierson is an ,englishman1 for he was born in ,cheshire2 ,scotland may justly claim him in that he is a direct descendent of ,sir ,robert ,grierson1 the famous ,laird of ,lag1 who is the hero of ,scott's novel1 ',the ,red ,gauntlet'2 that ,america has had a part in the making of him all readers of that wonderful book1 ',the ,valley of ,shadows1' know2 ,france can claim him since he began his musical career in ,paris and published his first book in ,french2 but no special country can claim to have developed his genius--that is cosmopolitan4 ,as ,current ,opinion says1 in a long study3 ,he presents a unique combination of thinker1 writer1 artist and musician who owes nothing to any school or any master or system of training2 and his experience is without a parallel in the intellectual world of our day4 ,,lawrence ,,waldemar ,,tonner1 #bde-a_/b ,so4 ,spring ,st4 ,los ,angeles1 ,california4 ,,foreword ,these messages were begun in ,september1 #aibj1 and the last was recorded in ,may1 #aiba4 ,i little dreamed that many of the predictions set forth would be verified so soon4 ,for names1 in themselves1 count for nothing4 ,the subliminal mind may assume different names on different occasions4 ,a message is of value exactly in proportion to the information imparted4 ,the first communication from ,general ,grant was recorded ,september ninth4 ,it is peremptory in tone1 and contains a warning touching the insecurity of the ,panama ,canal4 ,in ,november ,mr4 ,harding made a tour of inspection and found the fortifications of the ,canal inadequate4 ,i then decided on the publication of these messages4 ,they deal with the actual4 ,take1 for example1 ,john ,marshall's documents1 which are filled with warnings no reader with intelligence will attempt to refute1 ,disraeli's indictment of ,english statesmanship in recent times1 ,lincoln's utterances on affairs in ,europe and ,mexico1 ,general ,grant on ,preparation1 ,benjamin ,franklin on the ,privilege of ,liberty1 ,bishop ,phillips ,brooks on the ,coming ,ordeals1 to name but a few4 ,as a ,judge sums up1 regardless of who may or may not agree1 a decision is rendered according to the vision of the one who delivers the message4 ,principle1 not ,party1 is the basis of judgment4 ,witness ,disraeli's remark that the blunders committed by the ,british ,parliament would have been impossible in an ,irish ,parliament in ,dublin4 ,in a series of articles in ,nash's ,magazine ,mr4 ,basil ,king suggests that the means of communication with the plane next above us may be through the everlasting doors which the subliminal opens upward4 ,through these doors the mind may go up and out2 through these doors the light may come in and down4 ,in our group of investigators we have had the perseverence essential for serious development1 and1 as in all demonstrations1 whether physical or psychical1 everything depends on conditions1 so we have had periods of weeks when no message of any kind was received4 ,a striking feature of these communications is their freedom from restraint imposed by popular opinion4 ,they contain neither theories nor appeals4 ,warnings are uttered concerning events and their inevitable reactions4 ,the psycho-phonic waves1 by which the messages are imparted1 are as definite as those received by wireless methods4 ,,francis ,,grierson4 ,los ,angeles1 ,california ,,contents ,,page ,introduction #e ,foreword #ac ,thomas ,reed1 of ,maine1 ,late ,speaker of the ,house1 on the ,peace ,league #ba ,general ,u4 ,s4 ,grant1 on ,adequate ,preparation in ,america #bd ,general ,u4 ,s4 ,grant 7second message7 #bg ,thomas ,jefferson1 on the ,future of ,american ,democracy #cj ,elizabeth ,cady ,stanton1 on the ,future of ,american ,women #cc ,benjamin ,franklin1 on the ,privilege of ,liberty #dc ,john ,marshall1 ,the ,expounder of the ,constitution1 on the ,psychology of the ,supreme ,court #df ,daniel ,webster1 on ,bohemian ,statesmen #dg ,oliver ,wendell ,holmes1 on the ,new ,eden #di ,benjamin ,wade1 ,late ,governor of ,ohio1 ,u4 ,s4 ,senator1 on ,president ,harding #ea ,don ,piatt1 ,late ,editor of ,the ,capital1 ,washington1 ,d4 ,c41 on ,prohibition and the ,blue ,laws #ee ,benjamin ,disraeli1 on ,english and ,irish ,affairs #eh ,prince ,bismarck1 on ,germany and the ,indemnities #fc ,henry ,ward ,beecher1 on the ,new ,puritanism #gj ,john ,marshall1 on ,liberty and the ,league 7second message7 #gd ,abraham ,lincoln1 on the ,future of ,mexico #gi ,robert ,ingersoll1 on ,our ,great ,women #hb ,stephen ,a4 ,douglass1 on ,war ,between ,england and ,america #hc ,general ,b4 ,h4 ,grierson1 on ,japan and ,california #he ,alexander ,hamilton1 on the ,forces that ,precede ,revolution #hi ,phillips ,brooks1 on ,the ,coming ,ordeals #ic ,psycho-phone ,messages ,,thomas ,b4 ,,reed 7,late ,speaker of the ,house7 ,recorded ,september seventh1 #aibj4 ,the formidable imbecility of the ,senate rivaled the fantastic irritability of the ,president4 ,born with a ,utopian temperament1 ,mr4 ,wilson has a ,herculean passion for generalities and a ,lilliputian penchant for details4 ,you scratched the ,teutons at ,versailles and found a new species of ,tartar2 you scratched the ,japanese and found a ,pacifist camouflage2 you scratched the ,poles and found a pianist with his hair uncut2 you scratched the ,french and found a tiger with his claws unclipped4 ,your mania for scratching other nations will keep your nails manicured without the aid of scissors4 ,never since the ,declaration of ,independence and the first peal of the ,liberty ,bell did a chief executive walk up a winding stair into so pretty a parlor as when ,mr4 ,wilson1 with the naivete of a ,princeton president1 faced that cacophony of sectional jazz bands to witness the cryptic hand-writing on the wall at the peace table4 ,who was his adviser8 ,was it a gentleman with owl spectacles from the oil fields of ,texas8 ,and was there no one who could have cautioned him against the finesse of ,clemenceau who spent sixty years sharpening his wits on the political grindstone of ,europe8 ,was no one in ,america aware that the ,french ,premier is a fluent speaker in ,english8 ,mr4 ,wilson could speak no ,french1 which reminds me that ,jack ,spratt could eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean1 and so betwixt them both they licked the platter clean4 ,but a clean plate does not mean a clean slate1 and the ,president brought one home filled with the riddle of the ,sphinx4 ,yet the ,peace ,conference revealed the secret of perpetual motion and conferred a timely service1 for the hubbub created by the ,wilson-,lansing-,house-,party at ,versailles kept the ,senate from passing into a trance4 ,a blind man can tell the difference between pepper pods and apple dumplings1 but who can tell where tweedle-dee ends and tweedle-dum begins8 ,no one4 ,then how can your statesmen distinguish between the psychological characteristics of the ,hungarians and the ,bohemians1 the ,bavarians and the ,saxons1 the difference between a polka and a polonaise1 a pig in a stye and a pig in a slaughter house8 ,patriotism often depends on an influence too subtle for analysis1 and yet they would enact drastic laws to bind all ,europe in one bond4 ,they will hardly succeed in a thousand years4 ,some pay through the nose1 some through the pocket and some through the stomach4 ,americans are paying through all three4 ,danton declared the secret of the ,french ,revolution was audacity1 and audacity1 and again audacity1 but what you need today is vigilance repeated ad infinitum4 ,i am placing you in communication with some of the most far-reaching minds of the past hundred and fifty years4 ,the psycho-phone is new and we are using it for the first time4 ,,the ,,late ,,general ,u4 ,s4 ,,grant ,recorded ,september ,ninth1 #aibj ,the imbroglio started by ,president ,carranza is beginning to influence the politicians of ,buenos ,ayres and other centers in ,south ,america4 ,they have secretly repudiated the ,monroe ,doctrine4 ,their next maneuver will be a public repudiation4 ,i would say to ,congress1 stop juggling with phrases and attend to the business of the hour4 ,the majority have been chasing shadows in a sphere of politics illumined by moonshine bottled in the ,blue ,ridge4 ,i was more careful of my brand4 ,when ,president ,lincoln asked for the label1 so he could recommend it to other generals1 he was not far wrong in his surmises4 ,it is not so much the thing as the quality that counts4 ,most of you at ,washington will have to learn the difference between inhibition and prohibition4 ,the ,united ,states will be isolated within three years from this date if the blowhards from the woolly constituencies are not suppressed4 ,you need a broncho buster in the ,senate and a donkey muzzler in the ,house4 ,when a boycott is started by the countries south of the ,union your enemies in ,europe will begin to act4 ,it is not a question of commerce but of common sense4 ,i repeat what ,lincoln said in #ahfb3 ,the times are dark and the spirits of ruin are abroad in all their power4 ,my message to ,congress is3 ,see that fifty thousand troops are stationed permanently near the ,district of ,columbia4 ,my message to the ,governors of ,new ,york1 ,pennsylvania and ,illinois is3 ,get ready6 ,the troops on the borders of ,texas1 ,new ,mexico and ,arizona are inadequate4 ,the fortifications of the ,panama and at ,san ,diego and ,san ,pedro are inadequate4 ,you are in the same condition the ,french were in previous to #aghi1 when the motto was1 ,after us the ,deluge4 ,the ,deluge came but it did not consist of water4 ,our foes of the old ,germany and the new ,russia count on crippling the ,united ,states through ,south ,america1 with the aid of ,japan2 but he who delivers the first blow will be the victor4 ,the ,germans still believe they can eventually invade ,france1 enter ,paris and cause a revolution1 found a new empire to include ,france1 ,belgium1 ,holland and ,switzerland1 with ,italy later on4 ,this dream includes a practical understanding with ,soviet ,russia1 which1 by that time1 they expect would be weary of futile experiments4 ,plots will be exposed that will make it apparent how vain some of your optimistic surmises have been4 ,diplomats who are not psychologists will be balked by developments in ,switzerland1 that nation having become the rendezvous of disillusioned wire-pullers without a country4 ,you are now at the cross roads4 ,take the wrong turning and you will come to the skull and cross bones4 ,i could say much more but we are not yet experts in this new mode of inter-communication and must be brief4 ,,general ,u4 ,s4 ,,grant4 7,second ,message7 ,recorded ,may ,third1 #aiba ,i concur with ,alexander ,stephens when he says3 ,congress has never been so supine and so serpentine4 ,millions are sent to the people of distant countries in no way related to our ,government or people1 and yet ,congress permits thousands of veterans of the great war to continue in a state of neglect1 suffering and humiliation4 ,do the authorities believe that when the day of trial arrives the friends and relatives of these veterans will hurry to volunteer for active service8 ,the country is being fascinated by incidents and events in far-off regions1 and the tragic conditions at home have entered a chronic stage4 ,there are too many old men in ,congress--men who never did more than fight grasshoppers or watch a game of football from reserved seats4 ,we do not like the looks of the ,president's pronunciamento4 ,it contains too many side issues4 ,he is making ,mr4 ,wilson's mistake of being verbose4 ,mr4 ,wilson tried to hypnotize ,europe2 the ,senate is trying to hypnotize ,mr4 ,harding4 ,popularity breeds as much contempt as familiarity4 ,no ,president can ever succeed in conciliating all classes1 sections and parties4 ,the politicians of ,buenos ,ayres have now spoken as ,i predicted in my first message4 ,they have attacked ,mr4 ,harding for his speech on ,pan-,americanism1 all which goes to prove that the ,president is repeating for ,south ,america ,mr4 ,wilson's blunders in ,france4 ,remember what ,lincoln said to ,judge ,whitney3-- ,those fellows think ,i don't see anything1 but ,i see all around them4 ,i see better what they want to do with me than they do themselves4 ,the politicians of ,south ,america see better what the ,president wants to do with them than he does himself4 ,the administration will face a critical period in the early fall4 ,there will be a break in the dominant phalanx4 ,a social and political readjustment will compel mediation in quarters the most unexpected4 ,the new political and commercial dispensation for the ,english-speaking countries will begin on ,september twenty-second at two ,p4,m4 ,,thomas ,,jefferson ,few politicians understand the difference between scene-shifting and progress4 ,things shift1 new names are applied1 but the vicious circle continues4 ,i see no evidence that human nature has changed since my time1 in this or any other country4 ,if the ,republican ,ship of ,state is leaking1 the ,democratic craft is drifting without sail or rudder4 ,what your statesmen fail to understand is that progress is not induced by force but by free will4 ,new political planks rammed into your platforms against the wishes of the majority are without significance4 ,the phrase1 ,the ,solid ,south1 which meant something vital at one time1 has no meaning in these days of quick change and movie-show influences4 ,democracy1 in some sections1 is a matter of climate4 ,if you have come to a point where science and sentimentality are engaged in a drastic war1 then the ,democratic phalanx must undergo some rude changes4 ,the ,democratic tail wagged the ,republican dog for some time1 but that curious spectacle has lost its hold on public interest4 ,it is not now a question of one end wagging the other1 but who will wag both4 ,if ,republicans stand for crude force1 and ,democrats for antebellum sentimentality1 both are doomed together4 ,in the ,south1 ,democracy means politics at the polls1 aristocracy in the parlor4 ,in the ,north1 ,republicanism means the aristocracy of wealth4 ,however1 your conception of social equality is undergoing modification4 ,in ,washington's time the slogan was revolution2 in ,lincoln's time it was abolition2 in your time it is prohibition1 which reminds me that laws passed in haste bring long periods of repentance4 ,effective effrontery is the result of courageous ignorance1 for millions are more easily influenced by illusive promises than by the lessons of experience4 ,modern civilization has hurried to meet four deadly things--riches1 pleasures1 materialism and war4 ,but the tortoise is a better example of progress than the hare fleeing before the greyhound4 ,,elizabeth ,,cady ,,stanton ,it appalls the normal mind to stop and consider the criminal blunders made by the educated ,prussian and the educated ,englishman prior to #aiad4 ,no statesman had the vision to see what was going to happen to the man-made world4 ,since it is a question of intuition and feeling versus cold reason and business logic1 let us see which side is the more vital and all-enduring4 ,let us consider for a brief space what it is that influences people4 ,let us consider the influence exerted by the arts4 ,what is music8 ,emotion created by sound vibrations4 ,what is dramatic acting8 ,emotion created by vocal vibrations combined with gesture and physical movement4 ,has anyone ever witnessed automatic acting that left a profound impression8 ,orators become famous when they unite deep feeling with knowledge4 ,but what gives expression8 ,the power of awakening emotion in others4 ,feeling is always more convincing than intellect4 ,intellect is full of theories1 notions and superstitions4 ,but where you find deep feeling combined with knowledge1 you will find reason directed by qualities which pass through the surface and attain the heart-throbs of the real4 ,there are many kinds of emotion4 ,there is the hard emotion of anger1 the confused emotion of fear1 the painful emotion of jealousy1 the indescribable emotion of despair1 the radiant emotion of joy4 ,but the greatest emotion of all is that of knowledge united to feeling4 ,men1 as a rule1 speak of emotion as a weakness1 and they confuse it with impulse--a very different thing4 ,impulse is often the result of weak nerves1 uncontrolled by the will2 but we must not confuse it with the emotional quality which underlies all great achievement in art1 literature1 philosophy and personality4 ,the more impulsive the individual is1 the more primitive the reasoning faculty4 ,english and ,american business men are limited in general knowledge4 ,i have never been able to discover any distinctive difference between the two4 ,in ,france and ,italy many business men are able to discuss art1 literature and music on the same level with the masters4 ,the ,latin races and the ,celtic races possess a culture that can be traced back for two or three thousand years1 but ,anglo-,saxon culture only to the time of the ,saxon invasion4 ,the ,anglo-,saxons were the mushrooms of our civilization4 ,they were a stolid business people who lacked creative genius4 ,the outstanding intellect of ,england today is ,celtic4 ,the ,scotch1 the ,irish and the ,welsh combine emotion and power with tenacity of purpose1 and it is this ,celtic element that keeps ,america in the front rank of nations4 ,what women have been opposing is the primitive monotony of the ,anglo-,saxon trend4 ,it has meant a mixture of politics and commerce so primitive and so naive that ,frenchmen are amazed when they visit ,america and note the striking difference between the culture of the women and the mentality of the average man4 ,one of your great mystics has said3 ,the chemical constituents of human bodies is the same4 ,the ashes of a saint and the ashes of a sinner give the same chemical results4 ,as human bodies they are the same1 but their functions separate them and make them totally different1 so that the difference cannot by any hocus-pocus of metaphysics or magic be bridged or spanned4 ,two things of the same material are really different if their functions are different4 ,the real substance of a thing is in its function4 ,we have to judge people by the things they do1 not by their appearance2 for there is no clear understanding between two persons whose aims are different4 ,this is why there are so many divorces4 ,this is why so many intellectual women live separate lives from their husbands in the same house4 ,people seem to be similar and equal but they differ according to their functions4 ,if we take a philosopher1 a hangman and a sailor who appear to be equal as human beings we shall see that in their functions there is nothing in common4 ,the souls of these men are different in the very nature1 origin and purpose of their existence4 ,thousands of people move in a world of material shadows while their souls1 the substance of which is intellectual and spiritual1 inhabit a sphere absolutely apart4 ,especially is this the case with many of the cultured women of our time who are compelled to live a double life4 ,their intellects are far removed from the ordinary pursuits of the commercial world4 ,a woman of spiritual culture who marries a commercial man has married a shadow4 ,a woman of high ideals who marries a professional politician has hitched her motor car to a meteor4 ,a romantic woman married to a multi-millionaire whose world is bound in liberty bonds loses her liberty4 ,a metaphysical woman who marries a financier is handicapped by the physical4 ,a union of spiritual functions with material formulas is impossible1 for there is no way in which mere sensation can be made to harmonize with the higher emotions4 ,the new era of woman1 which is just beginning to dawn1 will direct education2 and through education1 politics2 through politics1 the progress of nations4 ,heretofore1 the commercial and political world had a free hand4 ,the progressive element was confined to a limited number of men in the colleges and the ministry1 together with a remnant of law-makers4 ,but their influence was negative owing to lack of material support4 ,women will now present a formidable force in numbers1 backed by a spiritual power1 aided by men who understand the difference between functions and appearance1 sensuous desires and ideal emotions4 ,for years ,i maintained that women do not realize the power they possess4 ,they live so much in a world of their own that they do not regard the man-made commercial world as worth elevating4 ,thousands of men are living in a sphere some degrees below the normal4 ,they have been surrounded from the beginning with influences that obliterate all the higher faculties of the mind4 ,it has taken woman some centuries to rise to power1 but the work is only half done4 ,never can the commercial instinct and the intellectual ideal be made to harmonize4 ,the two spheres of consciousness are totally distinct4 ,the modern intellect has been organized without considering the moral meaning of its activity4 ,this has caused the delusion that the crowning glory of ,european culture is the dreadnaught4 ,ninety per cent of all modern inventions are for bodily destruction or bodily comfort4 ,while the body lolls in luxury1 the spirit is soused in lethargy4 ,as ,ouspensky says1 we have created two lives--one material1 the other spiritual4 ,i believe this is owing to the fact that man is living and working in the material and woman in the spiritual4 ,in other words1 she is carrying her own responsibilities on one shoulder and man's baneful burdens on the other4 ,the figure of ,atlas holding up the ,globe should be changed to that of a female4 ,one would think that in these days1 when psychology is taught even to children1 that a man who has lived forty years in the world of action would know better than to boast of his eternal activities4 ,the word busy has grown to be a veritable fetish with thousands who have little or nothing to do4 ,the truth is1 most men are not half as busy as they seem and not more than a fourth as wise as they look4 ,we have to find out by exact analysis just what incentive lies behind people's actions4 ,what makes the distinction is the quality of our acts4 ,everything in the material and the spiritual worlds is judged according to quality4 ,gold1 diamonds1 clothes1 bricks1 music1 poetry1 literature1 are adjudged1 in the last resort1 on the basis of intrinsic value4 ,when people are engaged in pursuits for the sake of money the results will be on a plane with the quality of the incentive4 ,in the work done by women in the past fifty years in this country1 the incentive has been of a higher quality than that shown by men4 ,while men introduced a coarse realism into the novel1 women saved the situation by new ideals4 ,i do not think there would be much left worth reading today but for woman's taste and judgment4 ,in the world of intellect and emotion things hang together4 ,a low plane of intellect will produce low impulses4 ,the more we know the greater our control of the different sense organs4 ,nothing can happen without a corresponding cause behind it4 ,the hysteria so common at great political conventions is caused by the exceedingly limited intelligence of the managers and directors who labor under the illusion that blind impulse is tantamount to vision4 ,in other words1 where the critical faculties are not developed anything can happen4 ,and it is not difficult to predict that when political conventions are swayed by hysterical temperaments the authority at the ,white ,house will have all he can do to steer the ,ship of ,state through the troubled waters of impulse and confusion4 ,there is a will to power that is blind4 ,there is another will to power that brings the higher emotions to bear on the lower impulses1 controls and directs the organs of sense4 ,the people who elect a ,president are the ones who will influence his actions4 ,and when we talk about a ,president being a good man for business we are compelled to seek for the reason behind the statement4 ,if finance lands a ,president at the ,white ,house1 women1 children1 teachers and philosophers must shift for themselves1 since the supreme test lies in function1 and not in manners1 words and looks4 ,and finance means finesse4 ,do not expect great innovations at the ,capitol until a strong woman takes her seat at the ,white ,house2 and by this ,i do not mean one of ,barnum's bearded ladies4 ,conservatism is a good thing when it is coupled with vision and judgment1 but bear in mind that monotony and mediocrity start in the same groove1 run at the same pace and arrive at the same grave4 ,,benjamin ,,franklin ,there is but one mark of patriotism and that is vigilance and enthusiasm4 ,the cause of your trouble is the sincerity with which your foes think and act and the lukewarm sentiment shown by ,americans4 ,the reason is to be found in the comfort and luxury of the present day compared with the pioneer sacrifices of your fathers and grandfathers4 ,your opponents are vindictive as well as vigilant4 ,they mean what they say and do what they will4 ,they are working as individuals1 as well as in groups and parties1 but ,americans who inherited the land with liberty are exchanging both for the license of the maw4 ,when school teachers and farm hands are permitted to leave the country for the city1 the end is not so far off as your sophisticated solons of the ,state ,capitols would lead you to suppose4 ,i once stated that three movings equal one fire1 and ,i can say now that the lack of teachers and farm hands has resulted in a damage equal to one revolution4 ,no calamity comes and goes single handed4 ,the world1 the flesh and the devil are a triumvirate bound together by ties of consanguinity4 ,your school teachers are passing over to the world1 your farm laborers to the flesh1 and your ministers to the devil4 ,you are browsing on the stubble4 ,one delinquency involves another1 and eventually the monetary capital of the nation may be reduced to that of ,france4 ,the nation will awake one day to the disillusioning fact that peace and progress cannot be gauged by commercial prosperity alone4 ,for without food what avails your steel1 your oil and your gold8 ,if you could witness the mortification poor ,andrew ,carnegie is now undergoing because of his lack of vision1 you would have a lesson not soon forgotten4 ,he built libraries but furnished no books to fill them4 ,it was like building houses without windows4 ,when leading business men commit such folly what can you expect of the nation at large8 ,the three things most needed by the people are food1 raiment and shelter4 ,the next three are instruction1 religion and discipline4 ,liberty is a privilege2 it comes after all the others4 ,the individual has no rights inimical to those of the collective conscience4 ,until you learn this fundamental maxim1 all your knowledge will prove but a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal4 ,the nations are rattling over the cobble stones of bankruptcy on a buckboard of compromise1 on the high road to revolution4 ,,john ,,marshall 7,the ,expounder of the ,constitution7 ,recorded ,october1 #aibj ,some recent decisions of the ,supreme ,court of the ,united ,states are1 more than any other factor1 calculated to develop and foster an element of national unrest4 ,its deliberations are beyond the intelligence of many and above the interests of the majority4 ,its psychology is that of a divorce between capital and labor4 ,its rulings remind me of what transpired in ,england early in the nineteenth century4 ,many who were not socialists are beginning to turn from the older order1 imbued with the feeling that nothing could happen in the future worse for the country at large than the conditions that are being endured in the present4 ,a revolution arrives after a series of connected events which exhausts the patience of the public1 and events are moving with intensity as well as rapidity4 ,,daniel ,,webster ,you will search the pages of history in vain without finding a parallel to present conditions4 ,the war gave ,bohemia her freedom2 at the same time it licensed a bohemian poet to keep ,italy stewing in her own juice1 a bohemian journalist from ,new ,york to direct affairs in ,moscow1 and a bohemian socialist from ,switzerland to rule over ,russia4 ,added to this a fashionable ladies' pianist has tried his hand1 or should ,i say fingers1 in the science of unfurling the sails of ,poland's new ,ship of ,state1 while shop-keepers direct affairs in ,germany and pusilanimous politicians keep the people of ,america in a state of tepid trepidation and flatulent turmoil4 ,can you wonder that the country is being hypnotized by the sight of so many cantankerous cataleptics8 ,macbeth declared he had waded in so far that returning would be as perilous as going on4 ,nothing will move them until they are swamped by the high tide of reaction and flung as flotsam on the rocks of a stormy opportunism4 ,a new ,damocles has a sword suspended over the ,national ,capitol1 and liberty hangs to the hinges of the ,constitution by a hair4 ,,oliver ,,wendell ,,holmes ,while a few people are ready to return to first principles1 many are giving expressions to ,garden of ,eden proclivities4 ,but instead of the old ,eve1 you have the new ,amazon2 instead of the old serpent1 copperheads in ,congress2 instead of the old ,adam1 fresh brands of bluebeards4 ,agreeable to the apple of the new ,adam's eye and the fruitarian diet of the new ,eden1 some ladies have adopted the fig-leaf standard4 ,but let that pass for the moment1 always bearing in mind that he who loses his sense of humor loses his equilibrium4 ,millions of people are dancing their legs off to keep their heads on4 ,providence is wiser than the moralists4 ,there was a way out of the trenches and there is a way out of the pessimism developed by the dying dispensation4 ,it is not so much a question of keeping your powder dry as it is of keeping your wits from congealing4 ,beware of nebulous notions and theories4 ,uncanny kinks lead to calamitous brain storms4 ,a stitch in the side saves nine--kicks behind the solar plexus4 ,,benjamin ,,wade 7,late ,governor of ,ohio--,u4 ,s4 ,senator7 ,viewed in the light that shines on the ,white ,house1 there is no difference between a man from ,ohio and a gentleman from ,indiana4 ,men from the pumpkin pie districts think and feel alike1 judging world politics by the yard-stick method that prevailed in their villages when they were young men4 ,they are not always aware that political ruts cause social ructions4 ,the all-wool-and-a-yard-wide politician was home-spun and honestly patriotic1 but what you need is a home-spun thinker whose vision has got beyond the yard-stick measure and can take in the whole world4 ,an old-school president1 at this juncture1 will have little more authority than a ,congo king would have at a conference of jurists in ,paris4 ,has anyone taken the trouble to find out just what distinguishes the minority from the majority8 ,while the home-spun politician was eating cookies and buckwheat cakes made by his mother in the ,middle ,west1 some millions in ,new ,york1 ,chicago1 ,cleveland1 and other foreign centers1 were partaking of wienerwurst1 sauerkraut1 ,swiss cheese and rye bread1 and clinking beer glasses1 according to the custom of ,continental ,europe4 ,if we say that a statesman represents ,americanism1 the question arises what kind of ,americanism8 ,the ,yankee1 the ,southerner1 each had his place in the political economy of ,america from #aggf to the ,emancipation ,proclamation in #ahfc1 and even up to the ,cleveland ,administration1 after which conditions began to change with startling rapidity1 when the children born of foreign parents were beginning to come of age and the ,european ferment began to leaven the lumps of sectional dough4 ,the man who occupies the ,white ,house in #aiba should take ,time by the forelock and the profiteer with the padlock1 know how to translate ,es ist verboten into ,russian1 and say1 ,get thee behind me1 ,satan1 in ,esperanto4 ,if honesty1 alone1 is the best and only policy1 our country would be safe1 but honesty is only one of the qualities necessary in these days to carry a ,president through the mazes of a complex administration4 ,honesty does not always imply clear vision or even ordinary common sense4 ,the faculties of diplomatic tact and political judgment are infinitely more important1 and experience still more so4 ,in ,america the roles enacted by professional politicians remind one of a masquerade where everyone is trying to penetrate behind the masks and guessing is the rule4 ,if in this heterogeneous ball-room you slap your partner on the back1 you may elicit a grunt from a grouchy bolshevik or a groan from a disgruntled bohemian4 ,and yet ,congress enacts laws for ,americans who understand no dialect but their own and who have to engage interpreters when they visit ,paris4 ,how many wealthy ,americans realize that these ,united ,states have outgrown the cookie era1 the buckwheat pancake era1 the corn cob era1 the wooden nutmeg era1 and arrived at the root-hog-or-die era8 ,young ,america today no more resembles the young ,america of thirty years ago than a butterfly resembles a caterpillar4 ,young men and women are sixty per cent cosmopolitan and forty per cent rebel4 ,during the next five years the number of young people who will insist on thinking for themselves will increase two-fold1 because in that time many thousands of children born of foreign parents in ,america will have become mature enough to have fixed upon some sort of ideal4 ,congress will realize the situation when it is too late for regrets to be of any service4 ,which calls to mind a story apropos of this pressing subject3 ,a landlady1 having no means of obtaining meat for her boarders1 made a stew out of a litter of kittens4 ,the truth became known in a day or two4 ,one of the boarders said the very thought made her sick1 to which the landlady replied3 ,feeling sick won't do no good2 them kittens has all been digested4 ,,don ,,piatt 7,late ,editor of ,the ,capital1 ,washington1 ,d4 ,c47 ,where are the debaters whose rapier tongues ripped up the rag dolls of ,congress and kept the floor of the ,house supplied with fresh saw-dust1 whose fantastic fencing and heart-piercing thrusts were the delight of the gallery and the terror of fire eaters4 ,gone1 gone where the woodbine twineth4 ,what went they out for to see8 ,a reed shaken by the wind8 ,there is a difference in reeds4 ,tom ,reed of ,maine shook the ,house1 but the ,house never shook him4 ,what were his favorite drinks8 ,there was plenty to choose from in the ,washington of his day4 ,but note the difference between the wit of the ,maine ,reed and that of the ,missouri ,reed4 ,on the other hand1 where did ,bryan get the cross of gold inspiration in the old days8 ,did he do it on tannic acid released from tea leaves8 ,who will ever know8 ,one thing is certain--he never again rose to the same level4 ,is our planet revolving toward a second edition of puritanism8 ,probably4 ,the esprit de corps that animated the body politic begins to resemble a corpse with the esprit evaporated4 ,the human mind needs moments of exaltation as well as relaxation4 ,brilliant results are not produced by lukewarm sentiments expressed in a voice that lacks enthusiasm4 ,washington is now a resort for celluloid cynics and a refuge for asbestos patriots whose marmorian snobbery makes me think of the ruins of temples abandoned by the gods and forgotten by man4 ,the great blunder of the prohibitionists was made when they condemned beer and light wine4 ,nature abhors abruptness4 ,progress is not made by sudden jerks and violent laws passed in a hurry4 ,if a few persons living in an obscure village in ,ohio can bring about a movement like prohibition1 the same influence can bring about a return of the old ,connecticut blue laws4 ,violent actions are followed by violent reactions4 ,from this there is no escape4 ,the fundamental objection to prohibition1 as it stands1 lies in the cold fact that provincialism1 no matter how sincere1 can never compete with international common sense and cosmopolitan culture4 ,village residents are ignorant of the laws that govern society in the most intelligent centers of the world4 ,what will be the result in the long run8 ,antagonism between the people of the cities and the people of the country4 ,when they prohibit tobacco1 a war of cuss words will be followed by a battle of cuspidors1 and the very crows will cuss the crocuses4 ,,benjamin ,,disraeli ,some ,members of ,parliament have lost their reason1 the majority have lost their wits1 all are without vision4 ,lloyd ,george presents the curious spectacle of a man of the people who observes them through the glasses of a ,welsh ,calvinist4 ,he is a democrat with the demeanor of a lord1 a radical who has fallen between the two stools of the middle-class and the landed aristocracy4 ,nonconformist sentimentality1 on one hand1 and titled wealth on the other1 have blinded him to the imperative needs of the time and the dangers that confront the ,empire4 ,the ,english people of the past twenty years have suffered as much from misgovernment as the ,germans and the ,russians1 but they cannot stop the present stream of progress by clatter in the ,house and appeals to patriotism4 ,for years ,england has been saddled with cabinets composed of professional humorists and hum-drum moralists4 ,augustine ,birrell was a diluted edition of ,sydney ,smith1 and ,bonar ,law should have been a professor of theology in a ,presbyterian seminary4 ,sir ,edward ,carson played the role of an unfrocked priest in the service of demiurgos4 ,earl ,curzon is a political derelict whose presence in the ,council ,chamber prevents unity and impedes progress4 ,history will record their acts as the most amazing in the annals of ,great ,britain4 ,i see nothing for the old order but unconditional surrender4 ,the hand-writing on the wall was visible in #aiji1 but no preparation was made for the change which is now sweeping the country with cyclonic force4 ,we1 from our side1 can do no more than utter some words of warning for the few who have ears to hear1 the tidal wave of change not being confined to particular countries or regions4 ,i1 too1 when ,prime ,minister1 was blind to the reality1 having been born and reared in an atmosphere as foreign to that of the masses as the atmosphere of the ,winter ,palace was foreign to the peasants of ,russia4 ,we staggered under the load of a wealthy and titled upper class4 ,they consumed the people's time and imposed infinite misery on some millions of toilers1 and for these things we rewarded the men at the top with fresh titles4 ,as you know1 ,i led the ,conservative ,party in ,england for many years1 but that ,party was1 and still is1 avid for power4 ,the ,liberal ,party was made up of men using ,nonconformity as an instrument of advancement4 ,they placed opportunity above the truth1 position above principle1 power above progress4 ,we were all intellectual automatons1 set in motion by springs wound up by leaders who were themselves automatons4 ,england goes by machinery4 ,her very existence is mechanical4 ,now1 when a loose screw stops the evolution of the wheels1 the whole nation stops4 ,in what way can we be said to excel in probity of conduct the people of ,ireland8 ,in what way are we superior to ,irish politicians8 ,the scandals that occurred in ,london during the war would not have been tolerated in ,dublin under an ,irish ,parliament4 ,and still ,england is being led by a ,welsh ,calvinist1 opposed by a ,scottish humorist who says his prayers1 backed by ,anglican agnostics and middle-class dissenters overwhelmed with fear4 ,we always imitate the ,french1 but while we accepted ,voltairianism in principle1 the ,french had the courage to put it into practice4 ,while the ,french became practical pagans in #aghi1 we became practical hypocrites4 ,it is this element that has created the moral indifference of the ,anglican ,church and the intellectual apathy of the so-called ,nonconformist conscience4 ,this is why there is no stability behind the old phraseology1 the old ceremonials1 the old confessions of faith--now so many catch-words which the people abhor4 ,and this is why the working men find it so easy to send their leaders to ,parliament4 ,for the same reason ,russian radicalism is certain of a warm welcome on ,english soil4 ,it is true that this hypocrisy is subconscious1 having had its origin during the ,french ,revolution4 ,this renders it far more dangerous because political leaders in ,england today are mentally incompetent to realize the danger that lies before them4 ,we cannot reason with people whose vision is dulled by four generations of moral apathy4 ,hence they will continue to kick against the pricks to the bitter end4 ,there will be strife added to strife1 confusion to confusion1 and they1 themselves1 will invite the drastic events which must follow so much stubborn resistance to the demands of common justice and the progress of civilization4 ,,prince ,,bismarck ,recorded ,november #c;d1 #aibj ,when ,i imposed an indemnity of five billion francs on the ,french people in #ahgj we knew that the money could and would be paid4 ,but there is no parallel between ,germany in #aibj and ,france in #ahgj4 ,the ,reparations ,commission has only succeeded in proving its incompetence4 ,the ,german delegates have shown that the ,allied war claims amount to more than five hundred billion marks 7gold71 which is nearly four thousand billions at the present rate of exchange4 ,this fantastic sum1 one hundred times more than ,france paid to ,germany in #ahgj1 is expected of a country on the verge of revolution and chaos4 ,i charge this ,commission with incompetence1 extravagance1 luxurious living1 and claims at once absurd and ridiculous4 ,you punish some of the most dangerous criminals by indeterminate sentences1 which frequently end after a year's imprisonment1 but you expect to hold the ,german people in financial bondage for more than a generation to come because of the criminal blunders of less than a hundred individuals4 ,i was blinded by material factors at the time of my seeming triumphs but now ,i can see some of the things which will never come to pass4 ,the ,french and the ,english are repeating some of the blunders ,i made fifty years ago4 ,they are counting on conditions which will never exist1 like a bird sitting on a nest of mixed eggs from which the cuckoo will eventually oust all the other birds4 ,french people are under the illusion that ,russia will meet the obligations undertaken by the late ,czar4 ,to expect such a thing shows the child-like illusions under which ,french fanatics are living4 ,they are still wrapped in the swaddling clothes of politics4 ,we committed crimes that have brought civilization to the brink of chaos1 but we are not capable of such naivete4 ,the logic of a ,frenchman is no better than the mysticism of a ,russian or the sentimentality of an ,englishman4 ,french people learned nothing from the blunders of ,napoleon ,,iii and the debacle of ,sedan4 ,and the reason8 ,they have remained provincial while the ,germans imitated the commercial cosmopolitanism of the ,english4 ,advice is the cheapest of all things4 ,nevertheless1 ,i advise your statesmen to place no reliance on sentimental contracts written on paper foredoomed to become scraps4 ,i do not hesitate to declare that no agreement signed since #aiac is worth more than the seals4 ,in ,europe1 leaders and rulers have passed from an international game of chess to a national gamble with marked cards4 ,you have now to deal with an element which did not exist in my time4 ,this element embraces all factions of the new radicalism1 no matter in what country or under what leader4 ,some of these elements may unite1 but they are not going to change4 ,how1 then1 can you undertake to insure the future by contracts signed and sealed by elderly gentlemen with good intentions and poor judgment8 ,the war gave the new factions the long wished-for opportunity4 ,they seized it in ,russia1 in ,germany1 in ,poland1 in ,britain1 and other countries4 ,but the opportunities created by the war are one thing1 the opportunities of tomorrow will be different1 and it is this contingency for which your leaders are not prepared4 ,you will have to select men of vision who will judge events as they arrive1 without regard to the distant future1 which belongs to no man4 ,one of my greatest mistakes was in separating ,protestant ,prussia from the interests of the ,catholics of ,south ,germany4 ,the new radicalism is opposed to some things which are irrevocably linked with religious doctrine4 ,without the ,catholic ,church all ,europe would be in the throes of the ,commune4 ,the principal cause of our disintegration was that we sanctioned ,protestant flirtation with modern materialism4 ,france is beginning to see that even a weak monarchy is better than a radical government without a ,god4 ,you may expect a return of the monarchy in more than one country4 ,agnostics and ,protestants1 moved by fear on one side1 and disgust on the other1 will unite for a restoration as their last hope4 ,there will be a repetition of historic events4 ,bonaparte was ushered in by the ,french ,revolution1 and his advent was followed by three kings and one emperor4 ,the majority treat their rulers as children treat their toys3 when the novelty wears off a change is demanded4 ,political psychology and religious sentiment are not the same thing4 ,nevertheless1 they must be considered together4 ,the ,germans are now awaiting the hour when the inevitable change will be demanded4 ,events take crowns from some heads and place them on others4 ,if the ex-,kaiser ever occupies the throne again a modern ,nero will fiddle amidst the ruins of ,german imperialism1 for you know he meddled with fiddle strings as well as with political wires4 ,you think it strange8 ,the impossible is always happening4 ,never lose sight of the fact that an organized minority is more formidable than a disorganized majority4 ,three men brought about the coup d'etat that placed the outcast ,louis ,napoleon on the throne1 one man started the ,russian ,revolution1 ,i planned the overthrow of the ,second ,empire with the aid of ,count von ,moltke4 ,the majority put their trust in numbers1 but the bigger a thing grows the nearer it is to disintegration4 ,an autocratic minority ruled in ,germany1 an automatic majority rules in ,france and ,england4 ,two men started the present rule in ,moscow1 both of them from the outside4 ,god has been merciful to us1 said ,cavour1 in the ,italian ,senate1 ,he has made ,spain one degree lower than ,italy4 ,god has been merciful to ,germany1 ,he has made ,russian communism more abhorrent than ,german socialism4 ,nothing will be left undone by the ,french government to secure permanent occupation of the coal district of the ,rhine4 ,conditions will not remain long as they are4 ,they are preparing decisive coups in ,bavaria1 ,hanover1 ,austria and ,hungary4 ,new combinations will amaze your statesmen and diplomats1 who are ignorant of the fact that changes and upheavals operate in cycles of three and seven4 ,what they call chance is the working of law4 ,spiritual forces operate through the physical1 and nature will take a hand in the reactions in ,petrograd and ,moscow4 ,cold1 hunger and starvation will dissipate the hopes of the ruling minority4 ,untold numbers will be sacrificed4 ,during the ,french ,revolution philosophers and thinkers were decapitated4 ,in ,russia such men are killed by hunger1 the difference being one of method4 ,such conditions will be repeated in different countries until people learn that the spiritual cannot be separated from the material without pain and slaughter4 ,after all the long-winded conferences and shorthand reports nothing is left but a confusion of blots on the tissue paper of time4 ,i may say more on another occasion4 ,,henry ,,ward ,,beecher ,the happy-go-lucky humor of the day is no match for the cool calculation of ,european communists4 ,english and ,american humorists do for the public what the court jester once did for blase kings4 ,in the sardonic temper of the ,russian revolutionist1 ,i see a return of the ,french temper of #agic4 ,most of the sermons and speeches of the time are chameleon in character and tepid in feeling4 ,english humorists developed a flagrant cynicism1 spotted with a varioloid paradox1 while ,french writers have halted between the isolation of the hospital and the insularity of the home4 ,the war brought ,anatole ,france to his senses1 the last of the ,gallic wits1 who possessed a greater charm than ,voltaire without attaining his universal prestige4 ,prince ,bismarck declares that the ,french have learned nothing since their defeat at ,sedan4 ,yet ,french writers have learned more from the great war than the writers of any other country4 ,english humor is meant to entertain a public lost in the cynical buffooneries of materialism2 ,american humor is meant to amuse a public lost in the mazes of extravagant pleasures and provincial inanities4 ,english humor has a certain seal2 ,american humor a certain mark--the difference between sealing wax and a postage stamp4 ,both aim to fill the ghastly gap left by the doctrine of evolution since it caught the fancy of agnostic freebooters in #ahgj--;forerunners of something grimmer than the ,soviet symbols of a return of puritanism even now creeping into view as ivy creeps up the water spouts4 ,laughter will vanish1 since there will be nothing left to laugh at4 ,dancing will cease1 for curfew will ring at nine and people will begin work at five4 ,remember that all the great modern movements had an obscure origin4 ,spiritualism began in a country farm-house1 ,christian ,science developed out of mediumship1 prohibition was started in a village1 woman's suffrage was started by a ,quakeress1 ,theosophy began at a farm-house in ,vermont1 the ,salvation ,army was started by a group of obscure persons4 ,the new puritanism will start by a committee of persons unknown to the public1 chosen from the ranks of the ,methodists1 ,baptists and ,presbyterians4 ,grim determinists1 they will ignore satire1 sarcasm and irony1 ignore party politics1 ignore the opposition of luke-warm ,christians1 form committees1 in which they will be aided by drastic reactions during the period of readjustment4 ,centers will soon be formed in ,atlanta1 ,nashville1 ,cleveland1 ,boston1 ,hartford1 ,philadelphia and ,washington1 ,d4 ,c4 ,what is causing so much crime8 ,not one1 but many elements of decadence1 all operating together1 among which ,i can name rag1 jazz1 high balls1 cabarets1 free verse1 neurotic art1 sentimental optimism1 cheap notions of progress1 neutral sermons1 automobilism1 lack of child discipline1 absence of fear among people under the age of forty--evils which you may apply to all ,english-speaking countries4 ,the licence of the cities dominates country life and country thought4 ,the city minority rules the majority in the country1 and it is in the country that the reaction will begin4 ,,john ,,marshall 7,second ,message7 ,many of the smaller nations1 instead of being content with their liberty1 have thrown it away for the licence that always goes with land grabbing4 ,for a nation is nothing more than an individual with a certain amount of collective ambition4 ,much of the work of the ,league of ,nations will have to be undone4 ,but it will not be undone by any ,league4 ,the nations will settle differences in accordance with the law that permits the more powerful to wield control commensurate with their geographical and intellectual importance4 ,all people have rights which ought to be respected1 but some have privileges as well as rights1 and the privileged will hold the upper hand as long as intelligence takes precedence of illiteracy1 energy dominates over lethargy1 and the power of organized numbers rules over minorities4 ,your statesmen and your mediators will have to learn the distinction between rights and privileges4 ,all are supposed to possess common rights under the common law1 but it is wisdom1 supported by poise and power1 that constitutes privilege4 ,david and ,solomon were privleged4 ,so were ,alfred the ,great1 ,washington and ,lincoln4 ,a nation is temperamental like an individual4 ,the temperament may be vascillating or it may be stolid2 it may be logical or it may be commercial2 or a combination of the ,saxon and the ,celt4 ,the nations that will hold the balance of power in the future will be the ones with the most will and poise1 backed by number4 ,riches1 alone1 will not save4 ,wealth did not save ,germany from disaster1 nor did it help ,nopoleon ,,iii to ward off the ,prussian invasion in #ahgj4 ,wealth invites invasion and conquest4 ,this is why ,england and ,america will now be the principal target for the ambitious and the discontented4 ,this is why ,japan seeks a firm foothold in ,china1 and the ,russians an entrance to ,india through ,persia4 ,without the prospects of loot there would be no war4 ,when ambition and glory lure a nation on1 the desire for loot supplies the motor force4 ,when hunger forces a people to invade a nation1 loot becomes a necessity4 ,what the wealthy of every nation refuse to understand1 or even to consider1 is that material force engenders vanity1 individualism1 rivalry and envy4 ,all manifestations of force contain an element of disintegration4 ,the type of a nation will always represent the policy and the trend of the nation4 ,the supreme blunder of the ,peace ,conference was made when the delegates1 with ,mr4 ,wilson at their head1 refused to face the fact that no nation can rise above the ideals and idiosyncrasies of the national temperament1 and that sudden liberation from restraint is as dangerous for a country as it is for an individual4 ,there is but one step between liberty and licence1 and that step meant pandemonium for all classes in ,russia4 ,for other peoples it may mean political bondage and the total loss of a national spirit4 ,for the ,hindoos it will mean civil wars between the different native rulers1 for ,china it has meant a series of revolutions and counter revolutions which may have to be suppressed by the drastic hand of a ,japanese ,bonaparte4 ,the ,league ,conference at ,versailles took no account of the working of natural law4 ,sentimentality was the key-note of ,mr4 ,wilson's idealism1 and commercial expansion the dominant idea of his opponents4 ,as for religion exerting any fundamental influence for peace and right thinking1 it caused ,protestants to fight ,protestants and ,catholics to fight ,catholics1 while ,german and ,austrian cardinals did all in their power to aid in the invasion and conquest of ,belgium and ,france1 on one hand1 and ,italy1 the stronghold of the ,papal ,see1 on the other2 and all this in the face of the statement of the ,kaiser that ,catholicism must be destroyed4 ,nothing like it has been known since the dawn of ,christianity4 ,the only apparent reason for the quiescent attitude of some of the smaller nations is that they are without the material means of waging war on their neighbors4 ,just as long as politicians are impelled by self-interest there will be found nations that will have to use force for the suppression of licence and the curtailment of liberty4 ,in every country the people are getting what their thoughts and deeds create for them4 ,,abraham ,,lincoln ,events come and go in cycles--there is a beginning1 a middle and an end4 ,the ,league of ,nations had a beginning and it will have an end4 ,but what kind of an end8 ,will it be one of victory or one of ignominy8 ,the two fatal blunders of the ,kaiser and his cohorts consisted in the delusion that ,england could not raise1 equip and transport a body of troops sufficient to offer adequate resistance to the invaders of ,france in conjunction with the ,french and ,belgian armies1 and that ,america could not or would not join the ,european ,allies4 ,at the present juncture the inimical forces1 both in continental ,europe and in ,america1 are repeating the old blunders under fresh conditions4 ,history is a repetition of the old tunes with new variations4 ,just now the fireworks of sophistry and rhetoric drown out the familiar tune and what is heard is the buzz-saw of political machinery4 ,hyenas are gnawing the bones left by the lion rampant of ,czardom2 and ,siberia1 the remnant1 is being consumed by jackals from ,japan4 ,it remains to be seen how long voters with ,american pedigrees will be influenced by demagogues who would induce them to part with their birthright for a mess of pottage burnt on the bottom4 ,the longer you wink at anarchy in ,europe the greater will be the menace of social chaos at home4 ,the worship of shibboleths cannot be kept up beyond a point where the majority grow tired of hocus-pocus politics and academical agnosticism4 ,there should be harmony of interests in dealing with the people of ,mexico1 from whom you have much to learn in many ways4 ,the ,obregon ,government should be recognized at ,washington and immediate steps taken to insure cordial relations between the two countries4 ,the ,city of ,mexico is a capital with a great future4 ,you are about to pass through a period of great confusion4 ,warnings have been given but not heeded4 ,unless you cease to theorize1 and propagate a spirit of justice and judgment1 the near future will develop something more than storms in the blue china teapots of diplomacy4 ,,robert ,g4 ,,ingersoll ,washington needs a breaker of images4 ,the pedestrian sauntering down ,pennsylvania ,avenue cannot but note the hefty ,hancock on horseback1 looking as if he had just left a meeting of ward politicians1 and1 in another part of the city1 ,mc,clellan1 the ,beau ,brummel of the ,civil ,war1 on a charger1 sniffing the smoke of battle from a safe distance1 and others whose names are writ in water but whose effigies remain in bronze4 ,to the scrap heap with these1 and in their places erect memorials for the women1 who did as much for ,america as ,joan of ,arc did for ,france1 the intrepid pioneers of their race1 the prophetic patriots of the nineteenth century--,elizabeth ,cady ,stanton1 ,lucretia ,mott and ,susan ,b4 ,anthony4 ,it would take a ,lincoln ,memorial to depict their serenity1 a ,national ,capitol to symbolize their nobility1 a ,washington ,monument to typify the towering height of their achievement and the scope and clarity of their vision4 ,,stephen ,a4 ,,douglas ,a war between ,america and ,england would fill your homes with desolation and bring ruin to the whole country4 ,do your sins of omission merit such a punishment8 ,i am here to tell you what to expect if such a hurricane of disaster ever sweeps the two countries4 ,millions of people are under the impression that the ,united ,states can act independently of the conditions prevailing in the other great nations4 ,this suggestion1 coming1 as it did1 from a professional joker in ,england1 has met with eager response from revolutionary emissaries now in your midst1 supported by political fillibusters who are masking the truth4 ,if ,england ever starts such a war she will lose ,india4 ,her direction of the reins of civilization in many quarters of the world would cease on the day hostilities began4 ,but ,i am speaking for ,america4 ,a war with ,england would ,russianize the ,united ,states within three months4 ,even if the navy could keep the enemy at a safe distance the destructive forces at home would loot the principal cities and spread terror from ocean to ocean4 ,the first to lose in such an upheaval would be the wealthy propagandists of disorder and violence1 who1 living in security now1 would be hurled with destructive force against the weapons of their own creation4 ,,general ,,benjamin ,h4 ,,grierson ,late ,commander of the ,military ,department of ,southern ,california1 ,arizona and ,new ,mexico ,in #aiad western civilization was threatened by a military autocracy centralized at ,berlin4 ,europe is now threatened by a communistic tyranny centralized at ,moscow and by an autocratic aristocracy centered in ,japan1 anti-,christian1 anti-democratic1 anti-,american4 ,you may call it fate or destiny1 it matters not so long as you know what the signs and portents are4 ,we can see what is going on in the navy yards of the ,nipponese ,empire4 ,we have noted the strenuous efforts put forth in naval preparations there4 ,a ,japanese ,bonaparte will soon dominate ,china and prevent ,christian propaganda throughout ,asia4 ,i could give you the dates fixed for certain maneuvers and events in connection with ,japanese ambitions relating to ,america1 but they could change the dates4 ,suffice it to say they are making ready as fast as possible1 much faster than many in this country could be made to believe4 ,when the decisive moment arrives for action it will come suddenly1 like the invasion of ,belgium by the ,germans4 ,here are some of their expectations3-- ,the invasion of the coast of ,mexico and a coalition of ,japanese forces with some military faction in ,mexico likely to be of practical aid1 the bombing of ,american cities on the ,pacific ,coast from the air1 virtual cessation of communication between certain sections east of the ,rocky ,mountains and ,california1 brought about not so much by physical means as by revolutionary influences4 ,they are counting on a ,soviet revolution east of the ,rockies while they are gaining a foothold in ,california4 ,one of their first attempts would be to bomb the railway passes in the ,cascades and the ,sierra ,nevadas4 ,general ,grant has warned you in regard to the ,panama ,canal and other points that need immediate attention4 ,millions would be alarmed if they could realize how much the ,government at ,washington resembles the ,british ,government just before the ,german descent into ,belgium4 ,are they waiting until they can spy the enemy through field glasses8 ,i could give a map of the plans of approach of the ,japanese navy1 intended to operate in separate units1 but it would do no good4 ,they are ready to change their tactics at any time1 and have done so more than once4 ,let me add that the bellicose attitude of the war party in ,japan is such that a war between ,england and ,america would be hailed as a symbol of their divine destiny4 ,do not be surprised when ,i say that they proclaim the end of ,christian civilization was reached when the ,anglo-,saxons took possession of the ,pacific ,coast4 ,in the ,far ,east1 ,british domination attained its zenith in ,india2 in ,america1 ,anglo-,saxon influence attained its limit in ,california4 ,the possession of the ,pacific ,coast of ,north ,america is1 therefore1 the limit for the dominant white race4 ,the tocsin has sounded for a ,japanese avatar who will unify the political1 commercial and religious forces of ,japan and ,china1 give the coup de grace to a tottering civilization and dominate the world4 ,so do they reason and preach4 ,,alexander ,,hamilton ,what do the clouds on the social horizon predict8 ,is ,nature a book of fate8 ,if so1 is it sealed or open8 ,whoever understands the political actions of the past can foresee the reactions of the future4 ,human nature is always the same4 ,the two things brought to the surface by great upheavals are extreme virtues and extreme vices4 ,the virtue of self sacrifice1 on the one hand1 the vice of self interest on the other4 ,vice is flexible1 cunning1 adaptable4 ,you are living at a time when profiteers amaze by their cynical audacity1 but profiteers have always existed4 ,before the war the nobles of ,russia and ,germany were profiteers in landed privileges and governmental perquisites4 ,the tillers of the soil were free in name1 serfs in practice4 ,in ,england two or three hundred lords and peers possess the land4 ,in ,america food profiteering began during the ,civil ,war4 ,this national vice has never been attacked at the roots4 ,your age is characterized by a high level of predatory ability and a low level of prophetic visibility4 ,the old hackneyed phrase1 ,this is a free country1 has been applied in varying degrees according to the caprice of the individual with the most aggressive will4 ,new words1 definitions1 excuses1 have been invented to meet the new conditions1 but of all the words yet brought into use1 camouflage is the only one that covers the cynical effrontery of predatory hypocrisy4 ,it is a vocable of universal utility4 ,it applies to the cock-pits of commerce as well as to the arena of bull and bear politics4 ,it depicts a ,hindoo patience in the pulpit and a ,hoodoo palsy in the pews4 ,the word democracy itself is the stripes painted on the sides of the old ,ship of ,state in her zig-zag course to elude the torpedoes of the proletarian submarines4 ,a capitalistic profiteer is a high brow optimist who lives by the sweat of the low brow pessimist4 ,the stretching process will cease suddenly like the snapping of a rubber string stretched beyond the limit4 ,the masses without a voice always find articulation in the unlooked-for man1 the unlooked-for group4 ,the people without a mouthpiece are a mob1 and no mob can run itself for more than a few days4 ,it is the initiated who lead1 and leadership requires time1 patience1 judgment4 ,in the world of genius there are no upstarts4 ,the great leader never rises suddenly4 ,bonaparte was a military graduate1 ,grant was a product of ,west ,point1 ,lincoln was thirty years preparing for the ,presidency1 ,lenine spent twenty years in the study of economics4 ,all countries have the same experience4 ,voltaire endowed the middle classes of ,france with a voice1 united the disaffected of all classes1 and peppered their indignation with pungent epigrams4 ,he created an intellectual garden for lovers of liberty1 and from the realm of the mind flung the thorns of ridicule in the face of titled imbeciles and crowned the heads of scholars with laurel4 ,the people of ,france were washed by ,louis ,,xiv1 wrung by ,louis ,,xv1 and dried in the back yard of tyrannical economics by ,louis ,,xvi4 ,but it was the orators and pamphleteers who ironed out the frills and furbelows of the old order4 ,statistical facts may convince but they do not compel4 ,who knows how the ,french ,revolution would have ended had ,mirabeau1 orator of the great and solemn days1 survived to put into action the idealism of ,rousseau8 ,intellect alone never passes the halfway house4 ,when intellect1 reason and emotion are fused in one1 the summit of achievement is attained4 ,,phillips ,,brooks ,the time for discipline is approaching4 ,happy are those who1 under ,divine direction1 consent to be led1 for1 in the words of ,quintilian3--,nulla poena est nisi invito1 or as ,seneca expressed it1 ,fata volentum ducunt1 involentem trahunt1--those who refuse will be dragged4 ,you must in some manner experience the ordeals common to other peoples1 and you have seen from a distance what has overtaken many cities and nations1 the inhabitants of which felt themselves as fixed as the rocks in the soil4 ,yet1 all that is happening is in harmony with ,divine law4 ,you will find it in ,isaiah and ,jeremiah4 ,the repetition is inevitable except for those who possess vision4 ,the time for appeals is past4 ,the earth mourneth and fadeth away1 the world languisheth and fadeth1 the haughty people of the world do languish4 ,when thou shalt cease to spoil1 thou shalt be spoiled1 and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously1 they shall deal treacherously with thee4 ,are the people astonished8 ,let them marvel at their own willfulness4 ,the kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of ,jerusalem4 ,titus1 with his army1 destroyed the ,holy ,city4 ,the enemy entered the gates from without but your adversaries have long been entrenched within4 ,mammon is heavily laden and will fall from the top4 ,material power is volatile4 ,in the day of trial1 the retainer and the hireling will seek a refuge1 every man for himself4 ,they will melt like the wax image before the heat of the furnace4 ,on that day humility will be as a precious gift and poverty as a peace offering4 ,blessed is he who uses the spade and the hoe1 for by the sweat of his brow he shall eat the bread of security4