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cynicisms, the nihilisms, the paradoxes of our 

 schools of intellectual criticism ; from the vast 

 libraries created in the name of culture, mausoleums, 

 houses of the dead, accumulations of books for 

 which there are no readers, to use Lord Rosebery's 

 description ; from the futilities of Eugenics, 

 ignorantly endeavouring to construct a science of 

 civilization out of the Darwinism of the animal ; 

 from the sociology of the schools moved to profound 

 depths of scholarship over the significance of 

 totemism or the rites associated with the age 

 of puberty in the savage maiden while remain- 

 ing utterly unconscious of the significance of the 

 psychic forces expressing themselves in the great 

 systems of emotion and idealism, the social meaning 

 of which envelops the planet ; from the gigantic 

 problems of his Trusts and Corporations with their 

 systems of graft and scandals on one continent ; 

 from the equally gigantic problems of his proletariat 

 on another ; and then again from the problems of 

 all the races which he has alternately endeavoured 

 to enslave, to exploit, and to enfranchise in the other 

 continents of the world ; from the Churches which 

 have filled the world with wars of dogma while 

 remaining unconscious of the greatest dogma of 

 all, that the system of truth which has superseded 

 paganism has its living credentials in its meaning 



