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instance, of the command over the realm of 

 matter characteristic of modern industrial 

 enterprise is due to the pure scientific interest 

 of individual investigators, the interest which 

 is the pursuit of truth, subjection of the spirit 

 to Universal law, asceticism which suppresses 

 every impulse that might interfere with dis- 

 passionate verification. It is an obvious con- 

 fusion of thought to call western civilisation 

 materialistic because it deals with material 

 masses. It is a creation of the human spirit. 

 Every faculty of the spirit has gone to the 

 making of it desire, imagination, character, 

 will. Because in making it the human spirit 

 has been largely occupied with acquiring com- 

 mand over matter it has in many persons lost 

 the sense of other things, has become con- 

 centrated upon some lower end, has worked 

 for commercial gain or power for power's sake. 

 Yet may be questioned whether our modern 



