368 Civilization and Decay 



more tender and more loving to women than the 

 "emotional man" of the Middle Ages. 



Mr. Adams closes with some really fine para- 

 graphs, of which the general purport is, that the 

 advent of the capitalist and the economic man, and 

 especially the advent of the usurer, marks a condi- 

 tion of consolidation which means the beginning of 

 utter decay, so that our society, as a result of this 

 accelerated movement away from emotionalism and 

 toward capitalism, is now in a condition like that 

 of the society of the later Roman Empire. He 

 forgets, however, that there are plenty of modern 

 States which have entirely escaped the general ac- 

 celerated movement of our time. Spain on the one 

 hand, and Russia on the other, though alike in noth- 

 ing else, are alike in being entirely outside the cur- 

 rent of modern capitalistic development. Spain 

 never suffered from capitalists. She exterminated 

 the economic man in the interest of the emotional 

 and martial man. As a result she has sunk to a con- 

 dition just above that of Morocco another State, 

 by the way, which still clings to the martial and 

 emotional type, and is entirely free from the vices 

 of capitalistic development, and from the presence of 

 the usurer, save as the usurer existed in the days of 

 Isaac of York. Soldiers and artists have sunk lower 

 in Spain than elsewhere, although they have had no 

 competition from the economic man. Russia is in 

 an entirely different position. Russia is eminently 

 emotional, and her capitalists are of the most ar- 

 chaic type; but it is difficult to say exactly what 



