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and absence of strenuousness that mark the road 

 along which a nation marches to its destruction. 

 It is a significant matter that in the newspapers 

 which recorded his death there also occurred the 

 records of " that sinking into drudgery, of that 

 languor, of that little enjoyment of life, of that 

 indolence, of that shirking " which the great, but 

 alas, during life too silent, counsellor indicated as 

 the sure signs of communal decadence. His wise 

 counsel and sure intellectual penetration are no longer 

 with us in the flesh, but his work lives, and they whom 

 that work has inspired remain to carry it, if possible, 

 to fruition. In that sense, this Journal, in part, 

 may claim to be one of his heirs. 



Taylor, Garnet/, Kranx, <(■ Co., Ltd., Printers, London and Manchester. 



