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tive in civilization like ours would
be such fierce conflicts as fill the his
tory of the past The wars OF highly
civilized countries, since the opening
of the era of steel and machinery, have
been duels of armies rather than con-
ilicts of people or classes. Our only
glimpse of what might happen, were
passion fully aroused, was in the strug-
gle of the Paris commune. And,
since 1870, to the knowledge OF petro-
lcum has been added that OF even more
destructive agents. The explosion OF
u little nitro-glycerinc under n few
water-mains would make great city
uninhabitablc; the blowing up of n
few railroads, bridges and tunnels
would bring famine quicker than the
wall of decentralization that Titus drew
around JcruSalem; the pumping OF at
mOspheric air into the gas-mains, and
the application of match, would tear
up every street and level every house
The Thirty Years war set back civili-
zatiOn in Germany; so fierce war now
would all but destroy it. Not merely
have destructive powers vastly in
creased, but the whole social organiza-
ton has become vastly more delicate.
In simpler state master and man,
neighbor and neighbor, know each
other, and there is that touch of the
elbow which, in times Of danger, en-
ablcs society TO rally. But present
| tendencies are TO the loss of this. In
London, dwcllcrS in one house do not
know those in the next. The tenants
of adjoining rooms are utter strangers
to each other. Let civil conflict break
or paral,2c the authority that pre-
serves order and the vast population
would become Il tcrror-stricken mob,
without point of rally or principle of
cohesion, and your London would be
sacked and burned by an army of
thieves.
London is only the greatest of great
cities. What is true of London is true
of New York, and in the same meas
ure true of the many cities whose hun
drcds Of thousands are steadily grow
| ing toward millions. These vast ag-
grrgalions of humanity, where he who
seeks location may find it more truly
than in the desert; where wealth and
poverty touch and iostle; where one
rcvCls and another starvGS within few
feet OF each other, yet separated by as
great n gulf as tAat fixed between
Dives in hell and Lszarus in Abraham's
bOSOm-thcy are cCntcrs and types of
our civilization. Let jar or shock dis
locate the complex and delicate organ
izalion, let the policeman club be
thrown down or wrcstcd from him, and
the fountains of the great deep are
opened. and quicker than ever before
chaos comes again. Strong rs il may
seem our civilization is evolving de-
structivc forces. Not desert and for
est, but city Slums and cOunty road
sides are nursing the barbarians who
may be to the new what Hun and Van
dial were to the old.
Nor should we forget that in civilized
man still turks the savage. The men
who, in past times, oppressed or re-
vOltCd, who fought to the death in
petty quarrclS and drunk fury with
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