XXI Economics M arch 22, 1919. There is an astonishing number of books on what is called Reconstruction in the new publications of this spring.
Reconstruction seems to be as easy as conscription or destruction.
We have only to change our mind, and there we are, as though nothing had happened. It is the greatest wonder of the human brain that its own accommodating ratiocination never affords it any amusement. We use reason only to make convincing disguises for our desires and appetites. Perhaps it is fear of the wrath to come that is partly responsible for the clamour of the economists and sociologists in the publishers' announcements, almost drowning there the drone of the cataract of new novels. But it is too late now.