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THE SONS OF THE SETTLERS 
BY ERNEST RUSSELL 
I—An Antidote for the ‘‘Shame of the Cities”’ 
“To get and to have is the motto not only of the market, but of the altar and of 
the hearth. 
We are coming to measure man—man with his heart and mind and 
soul—in terms of mere acquisition and possession. 
“We are dealing with the virus of a universal infection. The whole nation needs 
a new baptism of the old virtue of honesty. 
The love of money and the reckless 
pursuit of it are undermining the national character.” 
—From the Commencement Address of President Schurman, of Cornell University. 
O MAN of sober judg- 
ment will contest the 
statement that the more 
apparent lines of na- 
tional effort, the very 
trend of our greater 
developments, have 
been ever making to- 
ward a material pros- 
perity, toward increase 
in wealth and the power 
which lies in mere magnitude of visible re- 
sources. The national demand has been for 
“the greatest ever”? in all tangible and 
spectacular forms of progress. 

For this intense devotion to a single idea 
we have paid, and are paying, the most 
natural penalty in the world. But there is 
no occasion for hysteria in the matter, no 
call for an arraignment of the whole people 
for the misdeeds of a few couched in such 
language as Professor Schurman employs. 
It is indeed true that the great seismo- 
graph of public sentiment has seldom 
registered more profound disturbances in 
our moral consciousness than have marked 
the passing year. One after another a whole 
galaxy of our cherished institutions have 
wavered and trembled before the analysis 
of relentless investigation; the huge fabric 
