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final law, forgetting that Egypt and Bab- 

 ylon are our contemporaries and of yester- 

 day in comparison with the hundreds of 

 thousands of years since the cave-dwellers 

 left their records on walls and bones. In the 

 mystic shadow of the Golden Bough, and 

 swayed by the emotions of our savage an- 

 cestors, we stand aghast at the revelation 

 of the depth and ferocity of primal passions 

 which reveal the unchangeableness of hu- 

 man nature* 



When the wild beast of Plato's dream 

 becomes a waking reality, and a herd- 

 emotion of hate sweeps a nation off its feet, 

 the desolation that follows is wider than 

 that in France and Belgium, wider even 

 than the desolation of grief, and something 

 worse the hardened heart, the lie in the 

 soul so graphically described in Book II 

 of the "Republic" that forces us to do 

 accursed things, and even to defend them ! 

 I refer to it because, as professors, we have 



