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AMERICAN GEOLOGIST 
VoL. XXXVIII October, 1922 No. 3 
SCARPITTA BRONZE OF SPRINGER 
By Charles Keyes 
Grave and gentle and strong and still, 
Sits the Chief in the Council Tent; 
But when we come to a breakneck hill 
His is the hand that is lent. 
There’s a Something we all can feel — 
Power and poise of the Elder stamp; 
Solomon must have made a deal 
With Springer, Dean of the Rito Camp. 
Charles F. Eummis. 
With the close of the World War a new estimate of the rela¬ 
tive value of men to the State resolves itself upon the screen of 
civilization. Frightfulness of German warfare instantaneously 
nullifies the servile deference that had been always shown by Oi 
ttoAAoi to the generals of their armies and that has passed all 
bounds during the decades of milleniums which have gone before. 
For the first time in history naked mentality rises triumphantly to 
the surface; and this may prove to be one of the grander achieve¬ 
ments of a world won over in a night to democracy. 
One is reminded of the keen observation of Guglielmo Ferrero. 
There are few greater gifts which Rome~has bestowed upon man¬ 
kind than the De Natura of Lucretius, which though little regard¬ 
ed among men amongst whom it was written has found its way 
across the ages, while the trophies, the triumphs and the glories 
