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guns. If a Germanized world should come, it would 

 be the result of a movement that we have all been 

 partners in. 



§ 



A born prophet and leader of men always makes 

 or finds a following and starts a new era. When an 

 age is ripe for a change a leader is sure to appear. 

 He is begotten by the spirit of the times. Such men 

 as Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Roosevelt, Wilson, 

 were evoked by the spirit of the times in which they 

 lived; they were an evolution. 



Human affairs differ from cosmic affairs or the 

 affairs of nature in this respect: in human affairs 

 there enters a new element not operative in nature 

 — the element of reason. Reason cuts across lots, 

 saves waste, improves the means, and gets there 

 ahead of nature. Man's progress has gone on faster 

 and faster as his reason has developed more and 

 more. No doubt every age has men that could lead 

 it to victory if the demand arose. But the age is not 

 ripe for them. There is more or less latent greatness 

 in every age, greatness that is never developed; 

 just as there is a vast amount of latent heroism in 

 the people about us, as is proved when circum- 

 stances arise to call it out. 



§ 



Lover as I am of the warmth and the light, yet at 



times I almost rebel at the glare of midday. How 



prosy life seems then compared with the feeling of 



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