H OWEVER, today as never before in the history of the 
race, a spirit of general uneasiness and anxiety is 
abroad—a widespread public movement in quest of 
efficiency. 
With the progress of education and intelligence comes a 
consciousness of something amiss a failure to secure through the 
old accustomed channels the relief from sickness that men need. 
There is a feeling—a growing conviction in their inner con¬ 
sciousness that relief and satisfaction are to be had somewhere; 
but the accepted science of the day—the orthodox organization 
—has repeatedly buoyed up their hopes with bright visions of 
quick salvation only to fling them back on disappointment into 
deeper abysses of despair. The world is weary of subsidized 
futilities and what it regards as the palpable failure of real 
progress. 
What the world is sedulously seeking now is something origin¬ 
al, the true progressive thought of our day, something that soars 
above the heads of tutored mediocrity, with great ideas and cour¬ 
age to uphold them, if need be in the face of conflicting theories 
of the schools, or in spite, may be, of their anathema and threats 
of swift annihilation. 
Since, as we learn from “Holy Writ:”—“Wisdom is justified 
of all her children,” why should the gates of science be closed 
in the face of all but those approved according to the old-school 
standards and judged by pedants of the old-world form-standards, 
the wisdom and knowledge whereof is past the zenith of its day 
and westering towards the point at which it, too, will shortly 
“vanish away?” 
The phases of the problem which really do interest us are— 
firstly, the fact of this public awakening from hopeless apathy;— 
secondly, the rejection of “orthodox” expedients and the wide 
and impetuous search for an alternative; and, thirdly, the be- 
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