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divine vision of justice; and filat this mystic vision 

 and not the mere increase of quantity of eatables 

 and drinkables is your animating; mot-ve. 



Grimes. Well, to my mind this wh^&amp;gt;le affair of 

 mystical values and experiences comes down to a 

 simple straight-away proposition. The submerged 

 masses do not occupy themselves with such ques 

 tions as those you are discussing. They haven t 

 the time even to consider ^h ether they want to 

 consider them. Nor does tie occasional free citi 

 zen who even now exists a ^sporadic reminder and 

 prophecy of ultimate democracy bother himself 

 about the relation of the cosmos to value. Why? 

 Not from mystic insight ptfiy more than from meta 

 physical proof ; but beca/iise he has so many other 

 interests that are worth while. His friends, his 

 vocation and avocations, his books, his music, his 

 club these things engage him and they reward 

 him. To multiply such men with such interests 

 that is the genuine problem, I repeat; and it is a 

 problem to be solved onl$ r through an economic and 

 material redistribution. 



Eaton. Gladly, Sta?ir, do all of us absolve our 

 selves from the responsibility of having to create 

 the goods that life r call it God or Nature or 

 Chance provides. Rut we cannot, if we would, 

 absolve ourselves from responsibility for maintain 

 ing and extending i:hese goods when they have 

 happened. To find fit very wonderful as Arthur 



