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...subtle power of our mind to forget will become mankind's blessing. As soon as peace is secured, we shall keep the peace not only by the method of enforcing it, but by the hundred better methods of making it natural. And it can become natural because all the scorn of today will fall off like the scab of a healing wound. Unless all psychological signs deceive us, after this war ends peace will really be lasting--and I feel sure the end of the war is near, the World Christmas Tree will be glistening tomorrow, the fragrance...
...long should a man sleep? The argument started at the dawn of creation and it is still debated. The ancients looked with scorn on the man who lay long abed, while Homer said, "It does not become a man of counsel to sleep the whole night." The University of Salerno in Roman days declared; "To sleep seven hours is enough for either a young man or an old one." In more modern times we have the famous dictum of Napoleon: four hours sleep for a man, five for a woman and six for a fool. Thomas Edison believes we shall...
Miss Amy Lowell's article in the "New Republic" on "The New Manner in Modern Poetry" is held up to scorn by Mr. Bullock. He exposes the fallacy of the "Externalists" who suppose that it is ever possible to be "interested in things for themselves, and not because of the effect they have upon oneself"; he disputes the pretension of the Imagists to have done away with egoism. Mr. Bullock is a little too hard on the Imagists, but not nearly so hard as they are on all their rivals. In general, the public is now folerant enough of their...
...revolutionary temper of the day suggests the first opportunity. In the prevalent spirit of scorn for old prejudices and of aspiration toward unadulterated truth, the student can do what no earlier epoch of classical criticism has generally and consciously essayed: he can apply himself to the privilege of discrimination and seek to arrive at an ultimate valuation of the different works of ancient literature. The moment has at last come when we may disembarass the Classics of the glamour that the humanistic enthusiasm of the Renaissance cast over all things ancient, good or bad, and when we may hope...
...entirely apart from that controversy, the pacifist has a message. No matter how well prepared we might be, there would still remain the problems indicated in such phrases as "A World Court," "World Reconciliation," "The World State,"--titles of courses to be given at the Conference. Let us not scorn the "visionaries"; for ideas eventually conquer the world. Let us rather hear their message sympathetically; and then, inso much as it is good; let us work to build the public opinion which will make it effective. It is news of peace at this time that is most thrilling,--not that...