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...governing principle of life in place of a sentimental romanticism or the equally sentimental naturalism. The easy road of laudatory self-indulgence is no longer to be justified by an appeal to nature as the final law. Reason is again to assert its kingship in the domain of life; man is to turn from "the anarchistic ideal of unchecked self-expression to the practice of the disciplines which humanize the individual and make him socially and righteously efficient." To the aid of a "positive and ethical humanism" is to be brought a "positive and critical religion," for "humanism cannot...
Snobbery, of course, is only an annoyance. So are bed-bugs and boils; but normal people will take great pains to avoid them. The animal's organs adapt themselves to its environment, and kingship stands for the environment that produced snobbery. Once developed, the organ outlives its causes. There is your vermiform appendix, for example. So snobbery will outlive kings. Probably we shall have our society columns for a good while. But snobbery is on the declining hand. --SATURDAY EVENING POST...
HISTORY I.- Seminars today at 39 Holyoke House. I. France, Germany, Spain and Italy, with the reading and geography at 2 p. m. Special attention to Fr. and Ger. Kingships, the Reformation, the Thirty Years' War, and Louis XIV. II. England with the reading and geography at 7.30 p. m. Special attention to the Eng. Kingship, the Eng. Constitution, the Tudors and the Stuarts. Price $2.00 each...