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final law, forgetting that Egypt and Bab- 

 ylon are our contemporaries and of yester- 

 day in comparison with the hundreds of 

 thousands of years since the cave-dwellers 

 left their records on walls and bones. In the 

 mystic shadow of the Golden Bough, and 

 swayed by the emotions of our savage an- 

 cestors, we stand aghast at the revelation 

 of the depth and ferocity of primal passions 

 which reveal the unchangeableness of hu- 

 man nature. 



When the wild beast of Plato's dream 

 becomes a waking reality, and a herd- 

 emotion of hate sweeps a nation off its feet, 

 the desolation that follows is wider than 

 that in France and Belgium, wider even 

 than the desolation of grief, and something 

 worse — the hardened heart, the lie in the 

 soul — so graphically described in Book II 

 of the "Republic" — that forces us to do 

 accursed things, and even to defend them ! 

 I refer to it because, as professors, we have 



