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mere announcement, than that the lighting tan 

 be utiHzed by verbally calling upon it. Yet the 

 disposition of society to move seriously under 

 scientific leadership toward the goal of social 

 organization is a feeble thing as compared to 

 the pressure of individual and class greed in 

 the free pursuit of commercial profits. Mate- 

 rially, we may boast a degree of attainment; 

 socially, we still linger close to the stone age. 

 And so long as the present ignorance and indif- 

 ference persist must we expect poverty, class 

 conflict, and world war. 



/. The Perspective of History 



In the face of modern indifference to social 

 truth, the philosophic mind seeks refuge in the 

 large view of progress as seen in historical 

 perspective. Across the screen of history the 

 unfolding drama of life assumes a continuity 

 and consistency that we fail to find when im- 

 mersed in the problems of our own age. Like 

 great waves empire has succeeded empire and 

 nation has struggled against nation, each pass- 

 ing its crest and subsiding toward decay or 

 ordered freedom, only to be engulfed by an- 

 other tide of despotism, until we reach the 



