June 25, 1915 
The great conflagration will start about 1912, set by 
the torch of the first arm in the countries of southeastern 
Europe. It will develop into a destructive calamity in 
1913. In that year I see all Europe in flames and bleed- 
ing. I hear the lamentations of huge battlefields. But 
about the year 1915 a strange figure from the north—a 
new Napoleon—enters the stage of the bloody drama. 
He is a man of little militaristic training, a writer or a 
journalist, but in his grip most of Europe will remain 
until 1925. The end of the great calamity will mark a 
new political era for the old world. There will be left 
no empires and kingdoms, but the world will form a fed- 
eration of the United States of Nations. There will re- 
main only four great giants—the Anglo-Saxons, the 
Latins, the Slavs and the Mongolians. 
After the year 1925 I see a change in religious senti- 
ments. The second torch of the courtesan has brought 
about the fall of the church. The ethical idea has almost 
vanished, Humanity is without the moral feeling. But 
then a great reformer arises. He will clear the world of 
the relics of monotheism and lay the cornerstone of the 
temple of pantheism. God, soul, spirit, and immortality 
will be molten in a new furnace, and I see the peaceful 
beginning of an ethical era. The man determined to this 
mission is a Mongolian-Slav. He is already walking the 
earth—a man of active affairs. He hinself does not now 
realize the mission assigned to him by a superior power. 
And behold the flame of the third torch, which has 
already begun to destroy our family relations, our stand- 
ards of art and morals. The relation between woman 
and man is accepted as a prosaic partnership of the sexes. 
Art has become realistic degeneracy. Political and _reli- 
gious disturbances have shaken the spiritual foundations 
of all nations. Only small spots here and there have re- 
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mained untouched by those three destructive flames. The 
anti-national wars in Europe, the class war of America, 
and the race wars in Asia have strangled progress of half 
a century. But then, in the middle of this century, I see 
a hero of literature and art rising from the ranks of the 
Latins and purging the world of the tedious stuff of the 
obvious. It is the light of symbolism that shall outshine 
the light of the torch of commercialism. In place of the 
polygamy and monogamy of today there will come a 
poetogamy—a relation of the sexes based fundamentally 
upon poetic conceptions of life. 
And I see the nations growing wiser, and realizing 
that the alluring woman of their destinies is, after all, 
nothing but an illusion. There will be a time when the 
world will have no use for armies, hypocritical religions, 
and degenerate art. Life is evolution, and evolution is 
development from the simple to the more complicated 
forms of the mind and the body. I see the passing show 
of the world-drama in its present form, how it fades like 
the glow of evening upon the mountains. One motion of 
the hand of commercialism and a new history begins. 
According to the Kaiser it is one of the most im- 
pressive literary prophecies of the age. 
Att Roaps on tHE Norru Snore will lead to the 
beautiful Bradley estate at Pride’s Crossing on Monday. 
The efforts to raise funds for the French Wounded 
Emergency Fund should be enthusiastically supported by 
the entire shore. 
Iv 1s OsteNTATIOUSLY announced that Germany has 
not decorated the men who participated in topedoing the 
Lusitania, but has any one heard that they have been 
reprimanded for their inhumane activities? 
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