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with royalty. Yet she is in no strict sense a queen. 

 She is the mother of the hive, and the reverence of 

 the bees is to motherhood. 



A democracy is far less pleasing to look upon 

 than an autocracy, less artistic, less architectural. 

 A monarchy is like a cathedral, a democracy like 

 a country church. Democracy* is science; many 

 illusions are gone. Monarchy is literature; and art, 

 illusions, and superstitions remain. Science and 

 Democracy are now in the ascendant. Will they 

 always remain so? Undoubtedly human life will 

 adjust itself to them. 



We know the sparks in the fire are minute parti- 

 cles of combustible matter, and that this matter is 

 quickly consumed or transformed into other forms 

 of energy. The sparks from an electric battery are of 

 another kind, they are not matter, there is no com- 

 bustion there. So far as we know they are pure dis- 

 carnate energy. The whole material world, visible 

 and invisible, appears to be charged with this en- 

 ergy which man can summon forth at will. Is it 

 transcendental matter? 



§ 

 At times I have very serious misgivings about the 

 outcome of the world war. I fear we are reaping 

 what we have sown, and that we have sown the 

 wind to reap the whirlwind. For a hundred years or 

 more all civilized peoples have been striving for 

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