x INTRODUCTION 



IV. Unorganized Humanity 



The vital interests of man are for all men the same, 

 for all men spring from the same creative source, are 

 servants to the same creative ends, and are dependent 

 in the same ways upon nature, and upon one another. 

 But there is no court language of the mind in which 

 these interests can be intelligently discussed; no vocal 

 organ to utter the dictates of mans intelligence; and 

 no organic instruments to translate them into creative 

 action. The will and the physical power greatly to 

 serve mankind are at hand; but the elemental intelli- 

 gence, and the unity of purpose essential to constructive 

 action, are lacking. The quickening spirit of humanity 

 awaits the birth of its organic tabernacle. 



Self-appointed delegates from civic and religious 

 domains, and from the outlying provinces of the phys- 

 ical and biological sciences, address the world's court 

 of public opinion virtually as strangers, and as alien 

 enemies to one another. Vaguely suspicious, and sus- 

 pected, they grow ever more voluble of shop and of its 

 technicalities; ever more secret, and inarticulate of 

 heart, and of its elemental purposes. To their busy 

 fellow men they appear to be the same old self-seek- 

 ers, but in some new, still more incomprehensible dis- 

 guise. 



In this new Tower of Babel, church, science, and 

 state, call in vain to one another, for each uses a code 

 unacceptable, or unintelligible, to the other. Each 

 thinks of different things in similar terms, or of the 

 same things in different terms; and each emits an end- 

 less jargon of discordant notes and messages devoid of 



