6 THE LIGHT OF DAY 



The ancient cities were built or made in a sense 

 that ours are not. They did not grow. They were 

 deliberately designed and built as we build a house 

 — Jerusalem, Tyre, Sidon, Carthage, Athens, Rome, 

 Paris, London, were not the result of natural laws 

 and forces, working through commerce or the spon- 

 taneous movements of peoples, as are modern cities, 

 but the result of arbitrary power. 



All political progress has been the removal of 

 forced and artificial relations among men, and the 

 establishment of natural relations. Democracy is 

 a search for natural leaders and the rights and privi- 

 leges that belong to man by virtue of his manhood. 

 There is much that is still arbitrary in American 

 politics and sociology. The new movement, nation- 

 alism, is a revolt against these conditions. 



It is doubtful if any of the unnatural crimes and 

 vices of the ancient world prevail to any considerable 

 extent to-day. 



What progress in medicine from the artificial to 

 the natural, from the chimerical to the scientific ! 

 The early remedies were nearly all fantastic, like 

 Indian medicine in our own time. The Indian 

 makes a tea of tickseed, or beggar's lice, to im- 

 prove the memory ; it will make things stick to 

 you. 



The doctrine of "signatures," which at one time 

 exercised such an influence on medicine, was just as 

 rational. The plant called Jew's ear was used as 

 a remedy for diseases of the ear, because its shape 

 was somewhat like that organ. Liver leaf, I sup- 



