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reached such control over Nature that she 

 will enable our civilization to escape the law 

 of the Ephesian, written on all known rec- 

 ords — panta rei? Perhaps so, now that 

 material civilization is world-wide ; cata- 

 clysmic forces, powerful enough in centres 

 of origin, may weaken as they pass out in 

 circles. Let this be our hope in the present 

 crisis. At any rate, in the free democracies 

 in which Demos with safety says ' ^UEtat 

 Jestmoi" it has yet to be determined 

 whether Science, as the embodiment of a 

 mechanical force, can rule without invok- 

 ing ruin. Two things are clear : there must 

 be a very different civilization or there will be 

 no civilization at all ; and the other is that 

 neither the old religion combined with the 

 old learning, nor both with the new science, 

 suffice to save a nation bent on self-destruc- 

 tion. The suicide of Germany, the out- 

 standing fact of the war, followed an out- 

 burst of national megalomania. For she 



