100 CREATIVE INVOLUTION 



PULSING FAST, HE SHALL START UP AND STAND ON HIS 

 OWN EARTH, THEN SHALL HIS LONG TRIUMPHANT 



MARCH BEGIN, THENCE SHALL HIS BEING DATE, 



THUS WHOLLY ROUSED, WHAT HE ACHIEVES SHALL BE 



If morality has reverted, as it seemingly has, 

 to ideals antedating even those of Attila, it is be- 

 cause the factors of evolution remain unaltered. 

 Treitschke rewrites Nietzsche with a change of the 

 structural unit, and evolution begins over again. 

 The psychic entities that have replaced us in the 

 scheme of things must needs evolve a morality of 

 their own, for ours, even at its best, belongs to the 

 pre-evolutionary period. Nations, like boys, have 

 to pass through the school of experience they are 

 not born with a moral sense. 3 



There can be no doubt that the social conscience, 

 inasmuch as it has to do with larger relations and 

 greater complexities, is destined ultimately to tran- 

 scend the individual conscience. Would we further 

 its development, we must hold it responsible alike for 

 Titanic and jitney disaster even at the loss of per- 



s The deliberate inculcation of hate by song and verse, the 

 adoption of the methods of the bloodthirsty Barbarossa, and 

 all the strange morbid religious utterances, show that the 

 entire German nation at the present time suifers from an epi- 

 demic psychosis of an unmistakable significance, and prob- 

 ably inseparable from real involution. 



ALLAN McLANE HAMILTON: 

 North American Review, June, 1915. 



