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aspects in the West is undoubtedly rising to a 

 climax in history ? No observer in his senses can 

 doubt the infinite significance in the world of the 

 process of enfranchisement, new in the history of 

 the race, which, moving slowly through long periods 

 in the past, has brought our civilization to its present 

 position. But what is the import of the apparent 

 rebirth in the West of the pagan mind drunken 

 with the spirit of force and of that recrudescence of 

 the forms of force in all the institutions of the 

 West which in a space of fifty years has followed 

 the interpretation of the Darwinian thesis of the 

 world in terms of efficiency resting on force ? It is 

 a development which cannot contain the meaning 

 of the West. It is a development which is indeed 

 entirely overshadowed by the significance of another 

 and counter phenomenon the ever-rising tide of 

 the social emotion in our civilization. For through 

 all the stress of conflict in the West there swells 

 the deep diapason of the social passion calling 

 for service, for subordination, for sacrifice, for 

 renunciation on a scale unprecedented. The pro- 

 paganda which it inspires is, moreover, addressed 

 no longer to nameless mobs, but through every 

 avenue of emotion in art and literature to the 

 minds of voting millions who are themselves the 

 armed millions and the ultimate units of civiliza- 



