So THEOPHOBIA AND NEMESIS 



again it is too often the case that an " unknown 

 God " is sought, and from want of proper direc- 

 tion not always found. In a recently published 

 memoir of one of the many splendid young 

 fellows by whose death the world has been made 

 poorer during this calamitous war, there is this 

 moving passage : " I know that many hearts are 

 turning towards something, but cannot find satis- 

 faction in what the Christian sects offer. And 

 many, failing to find what they need, fall back sadly 

 into vague uncertainties and disbelief, as I often 

 do myself." We badly need a St. Paul who will 

 say to these and other anxious hearts, " Quod 

 ergo ignorantes colitis, hoc ego annuntio vobis" 



However, it is much more with those who only 

 " stand and wait " than with those who were 

 actually in the trenches that we are concerned; 

 what about the lamentable army of wives and 

 mothers, widows and orphans, people bereft of 

 those they loved or rising every morning in dread 

 of the news which the day might bring forth ; 

 what about these and their attitude towards the 

 things unseen ? That many such have turned to 

 some genuine form of religion is happily beyond 

 dispute, but it is also unquestionably true that 

 thousands have turned aside to the attractions of 

 spiritualism. A recent article in the Literary 

 Supplement of the Times commenced with the 

 statement that " Among the strange, dismaying 

 things cast up by the tide of war are those traces 

 of primitive fatalism, primitive magic, and 

 equivocal divination which are within general 

 knowledge." The writer of the article in question 



