SOWING THE STORM 15] 



founts of learning babbling^over and over again 

 the same old, unproven Haeckelian lessons, until 

 they were learned by rote, can we wonder that the 

 nations should have been ripe for the cataclysm of 

 the World War, for the Spartacan and Bolshevist 

 outbreaks, for the excesses of a Bela Kun and a 

 Trotzky following in the wake of Marx and Fer- 

 rer. Yet these were merely premonitions of the 

 things to come if a sounder and more scientific 

 basis is not laid for our learning. They who sow 

 the storm must reap the whirlwind. 



Our entire view of life will obviously take shape 

 and color according as we admit or reject a Divine 

 plan. Nothing could be more childish than to 

 imagine that evolution can disprove the existence 

 of God. In the order of pure reason it could 

 merely postpone the difficulty which the evolution- 

 ist so painfully and futilely seeks to avoid: "And 

 who then gave the laws of evolution?" Only a 

 mind distorted and distraught could fancy the 

 ordered beauty of nature and the marvel of human 

 life, with its mystery of reproduction, as existent 

 without an intelligent primal and directive cause. 

 This can evidently not be contingent, like the ma- 

 terial universe about us, but must be a simple, im- 

 material, necessary being. 



Whether civilization is ever to attain closer to 

 its ideal perfection, or in spite of all its material 

 culture or kultur is to sink ever deeper into the 

 mire of lewd passions and brutal instincts, as did 



