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held the able legislature stn Puritan laws
That Is where moral self
elect wide open councils and these
laws evaded. That is where other appears.
We could not possibly be consistent in
would that legislature should recognize
dunEenness gambling and prostitution, prohibiting
should acknowledge and regulate them That would
lea Our moral leaders would from Chicago
10 Cairo.
They do that Of thing in Germany their
cities have practically graft and by criminal
And the other hand, CITY admnstra-
ton IN Chicago that would honestly made
at Springfield That also impossible sentiment never has
sustained and would will 20 on
doing the two unxabe things will make Puritan laws
Cavalier mayors
And the sure result time Because the police
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Now, as TO the cheap novel, II has IN
questionably affected authors earnings.
Here, again, II is a case Of reaction follow.
ing a boom Absurd prices have been
paid to authors for cheap books. and,
naturally. these prices have had to come
down with a run. Then. again. with the
cheap novel there IS the influence OF grow
ing competition. A publisher must sell 90, =
900 copies OF cheap book TO make profit.
That was possible enough at hrst, when
there was little or no competition, but now,
when the market is flooded with cheap nov
els, there are not $1,000 readers for all Of
them, or anything like all Of that. am
not prejudiced against the cheap novel:
am often guilty Of buying II myself. be-
cause FOR few cents you get book worth
keeping. Nevertheless, in my opinion, the
cheap novel Will end by committing suicide
Personally. I think that the higher
priced novel Will live. as the best edition
for the libraries and the library subscriber
But for the bookshop trade, on which
can claim to speak with some authority.
believe that the medium priced novel is the
novel Of the future Anyway. my expert
ment IN publishing William lie Queux's
novel, The House OF Whispers at so cents
has been immensely successful-the book
sellers returns being more than satisfao-
tory AS to the future IN general. the out
look from the authors point Of view Is no
doubt rather gloomy-he has heavy over
drafts to make good-but believe things
viii right themselves. provided that su-
thors and literary agents recognize that
even 3 publisher must 1--we"
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each conscious spirit the inmos the Altman
doubtless did prex portion the infinite spirit
God And in consonance with the divine for clearer
Naturalization and material with its multi
Feazauons This is utterly different the rebh
"he OF mercess harmc fate returning and urnng Eastward
and all this too with better
teachers and stellar realms explore those
immensities
speca! creation outlined the Babyonan partially
symatzed the book Genesis back chapter in the
minds OF advanced Chrndom substituted By
scientists for the word implies preceding
vouon This admits doubt the philosophy Of
hediy which nationally all inequalities
human characteristics There genius prenatal
Influences impingng environments and impressions from invisible
sources will not reasonably without reSorng spec
lation Of rencanaion
The literature OF this abounds in repeated
the stereotyped phrase the inequalities inequalities
considered from the viewpoint among the choicest
blessings The reverse Of inequality monotony
forest OF trees the shape height would induce
distressing mania II all births Ignorance
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Industrial classes have crowded the Older
classes 20 the wall, taken up the gage OF
battle against them. II the latter did no,
give way OF their own accord. But since
the history OF all times shows such social
struggles, II would be easy TO say:
" Why do you speak OF a social question
so specially today? This question has al
ways existed-this question about which
there Is such a fury today. There Is moth
ing new under the SUM-"
But there Is a difference! Throughout
all the past the position Of the individual
was fixed within the definitely circum-
scribed situation in which he lived The
stand at which he did business determined
his Importance to society. lie was Judge,
clergyman, artisan, peasant, or merchant
nothing else besides-and in the social
conflicts IN which he was implicated his
stand or rank and station fought, he him
self being only a member OF his class, with
whose interests his own interests were in
dissolubly united by fixed order.
At the end Of the eighteenth century and
the beginning OF the nineteenth this whole
vocational articulation OF cultural human
ity collapsed. Man as an individual being.
as a self, appeared upon the scene. He felt
within himself the impulse and the power
10 be and to mean something on his own ac-
count lie demanded his right to be able
TO unfold his personality in every direction
without let or hindrance.
The tree should have free access 70 air
and light above, 10 the juices Of the soil
beneath. Away with the bonds that had
fettered for millenniums! Let the con-
science be free from the law OF ecclesias-
teal authority! Let the acquisitive i'm
pulse be free from slavery to the glebe or
10 the rules OF the corporate body. AS
free citizen, let him participate in making
the laws OF the state and in the duty Of
guarding the domestic hearth with his for
tune, his sacred honor. and his blood!
Never before had the history OF the world
seen such a picture OF humanity as the
nineteenth century afforded. 1t is GER
tainly something new under the sun for the
individual TO be thrown upon his own re-
sponslbility. To decide what he shall do
and what he shall not do. what he shall be-
lieve and not believe-it was this spirit
that made nan a true child Of the last
century. For the first time in history was
II really seen what man is and what man
can do-this man who surprised himself
every day with new triumphs over nature.
bridged the spaces that yawned In the i'm
and made plumbless past give
UP its dead.
So gigantically did this man grow In
and power as he came TO him
self that the dependent man OF an early
day would scarcely have recognized him
as Of the same nature with himself. but. had
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avodably Given legislature that laws and city
where prevails open sentiment and graft grows there as
orally toadstOols by a ten stump
The AngloSaxon queer tells US that our fore
fathers when they first emerged history white bodied
blue eyed red headed savag characteristics first they
were highly religious and second they desperate dunkarS
These traits persist People Of English stock take religion
exraYaganty and their pleasures bruta religions traits
manifest in Wesleyan REVEALS Salvation army campaigns Aoodys
Eddy and Billy Sundays We along being mildly pous
and pleasantly time as do French and Spanish
folk.
The minute you channel from France You notice
difference In Paris people polsons gnteey
London they gup drinking place decent
and mildly woozy and little tables on the
sidewalks In London the shops VILE smelly sewn
and full Of bottle eyed bleary oafers
So we run contradictory laws Spring
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Bp Or. frank Crane.

force understands that law but to interpret law
and to its Judgment and all corrupt as an army
would become corrupt which should not 70
fight rOut and kill the but nurse the
enemy along
With kind Of law and sentiment there
arise strange shapeeSs like brothers unreco
nzed by law but produced by the things through
the underworld Of vice controls the community.
The only rid abolish the caua Of pt
Take the Of the blue electricity will die
Either make laws sentiment OF the peoo
or eject officers that know nothing but highly moral
laws have.
We will do neither Graft viii along Occasionally
When some peculiarly atrocous committed
men have quarrel among themselves about spos have
an eruption Ike the present MeCann trial pus sy
ten--all the worse when there eruption
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Bp Dr. +. M. ReebIes.

educate vicious reclaim rformers pleasure
Of aiding the III born and nung dpraved higher
planes OF moral consciousness and a better
The test Of speculation any theory, pactabiity
What then is the result 1000 years
upon Hinduism?
Did the HnduS discover the potency they put
railway system IN practice did they discover teegaphc
communication did they discover the telephone specrOsope
the hquacuon Of adu, tegraphy light:
hat has the rencanaon cult done during
throw OF child marriage for the caste
physical and mental education Of midas millions!
As imported theory the dreamy rencar
nation may be thus SUMMARIZED It is
shed scientific fact defiance ascend
ing step by step through mineral vegetable angels seraphs
GODS It's SOOO Of believers India, Tibet Corea Burma con-
Suue e most supeous people aFth annihates Supplies
memory for long periods aspirations Of the
spirit by rotating back again and matter
as hamc force 1t knows nothing mercy forgiveness
ey Furnishing souls this life previous
existence IN brief mingng Hindu super
suon ecpsng the mind and deepening every mystery the universe
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no other century has known this ques-
tion No other century could know X be-
cause other centuries knew classes and
caliings. not individual men.
There IS another thing that Is new IN our
day-that these matters OF the social life
should become questions az ell, toward
which especially the Individual human
spirit should assume conscious attitude.
Other centuries OF course have known
social conflicts, have known the blind
natural impulse, the social instincts which
disburden themselves in social struggles;
but our day makes question Of conscious
spirit problem OF Inquiry and knowledge,
out Of the war Of instinct and might.
In former centuries Il was the lower
classes OF society in which the misery OF
existence released itself finally in social
warfare Today It is the thinking spirits.
the leaders and opponents OF intellectual
culture indeed IN whom the social question
finds the deepest understanding and the
liveliest response. Even as 10 the lower
classes. It IS the middle class. somewhat
liberated from keen want. that evinees the
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Reincarnatton Tallacp Of FAR East.

religion was born from the sleeping
savage. from the aliTuism OF the lower races.
or from the unfolding law Of evolution matters
little TO the solid thinker 1t is present in all
bibles, and in connection with science, philos-
ophy, and metaphysics il is ever struggling
with the great problem OF existence here and
hereafter.
The theory Of reincanaton imported from
India and generally repelent 10 science and the
deeper psychic research has quite Il numDer on
believers in the arena of modern thought. And
while not taught in the holy vedas. il is almost
universal as a belief among Hindus and Bud
dhists The 10000, 600 OF midas MOhammedans
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Decline in Profits Of GnqIisb ncveIists.

N PROPOS Of Helen Mathers' assertion
~ that the financial rewards OF novel
~ writing are no longer worth having.
thanks mainly 10 the advent OF cheap
editions. here are the views of Eve
leigh Nash. one OF the most enterprlslng
and successful OF publishers, with whom the
future or fiction and fiction writers must
greatly rest
Helen Mathers Is right in saying that
there is a serious decline IN the novel mar
ket," said Mr.. Nash but do not agree
that Il is entirely due to the cheap novel.
there are other and more remote causes
than that We are experiencing the inev-
table reaction that follows every boom.
In the old days authors were undoubtedly
greatly underpaid. Then they began To
find themselves and their market value
and more New publishers, anxious 10 get
business. were ready to give generous
terms; authors, themselves. remembering
past grinding down. had human desire IN
get bit Of their own back; literary agents
came into existence. and to the authors
assistance, and. what with one thing and
another. prices were forced up far beyond
their proper level. The absurdly inflated
prices that have been paid in the past are
one OF the chief causes OF the present
slump'
The literary agent or. at least, the pres
ent-day literary agent. has had much to do
with reducing authors profits by foolish
policy Of bleeding publishers for all they
are worth. The early agents were reason
able men They did their best for their
clients, but they also LEFT the publisher a
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heart that he educates man and prepares
him for the answers which he has ready
for man in the womb OF time.
Hence. with reference 20 mans impulses
TO freedom, God himself has raised the great
question. since he shows Us how this I'm
pulse in numberless beings only aggravates
the misery OF their existence: and with
reference 20 the social impulse has he raised
the same question, when human nature,
SIN unconscious OF the right way Is there
by betrayed into self-contradictlon. until.
from the two questions the great question
OF our day has arisen, 50 violent IN every
land. so menaCing in every heart and home.
that the uproar is enough TO awaken the
dead
But when men have once truly under.
stood what this question Is about. Gods an.
swer viii be ready. God viii solve the So
cial question. as he alone has asked it. Hs
wiz solve It with US and by us and for us
when we understand the signs OF the times
and are obedient TO his Will He will solve
It without US and against us. II We selhshly
and stubbornly 20 our own way. and think
that we can resist his Will
When? Howl OF that no man knows.
Only one thing is antecedently certain-in
Gods solution Of the social question nothing
can be lost or what he has himself given %
HIS own life 70 humanity as Il has ever gone
on its weary and pathetic pilgrimage into
the untrOdden years.
But why should we be fearful and faith
a botch OF thework Of tha eternal? They can
only harm themselves But he can mako
the wrath OF man praise him. The Ignorance
and malice OF men are only the withered
leaves whose decay supplies new forces OF
resurrection and life. There Is much OF the
odor OF the decay around US today. and
much which is praised with loud acclaim
as glorious has the death mark on IT'S fore
head. Hence many an honest and brave
heart asks: What viii be the outcome OF
It ali?
Many who once thought that they had
been called to be prophets sit low-spirited
by the wayside and are resentfuI because
they no longer find themselves al home in
our time with its strange appearance So
long as we do not see the nfe OF God IN this
great problem OF our day, our time viii
seem more confused and contradictory
than any other which humanity has ever
known
It Is ours to be grateful that we live in a
day when the greatest question which man
can know Is being slowly solved A great
problem makes time great It is ours 10
keep our ear close to the beating heart Of
modern humanity, hesrken for the voice OF
God in the unrest. that God who has made
us for himself and who means that we shall
be restless until We. as Augustine said, rest
In him
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BY Prof. George Burman Foster.

ny IIVI. USVi w UNl IiidH JVStST.
stand shall intensity into the hercer battle
OF man against man2
Or does the ancient wisdom hold good fer
the free man, that man is a social animal.
so that we only need new social forms
wherein the individual can find new. more
vital union with his fellowmen in whose
society alone he can become truly man?
This Is the great social question. This Is
the sign OF the times in which we live, the
question whether the individual man is for
the sake OF society or whether the society
is for the sake Of the individual man? This
noisy turbulence with which our cultural
humanity pushes on It's way, is Il multi
tudinous jubilation OF those who feel
themselves loosed from rusty old chain
and revel IN the fullness OF their strength
or II Is the anxious cry which browns the
death rattle In the throat OF the MORALLY
wounded. the desperate cry OF broken hearts
10 whom the new day OF freedom has
brought only curse and ruin7
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Graft Social Law WorRs' Bv=Droouct.

ERTAIN chemical combinations Of two sub
stances produce a third. Hydrogen and oxygen
Joined together bring forth water. A certain
metal brought into contact with a certain acid
generates electricity.
These are physical laws that no one thinks
Of disputing. There is no chance OF hit and
miss or probability about them. Also that two
and three should make any other thing than
five, is unthinkable.
The cosmic spiritual laws are just as accu-
rate as the physical laws That sin brings sor-
row is every whit as inevitable as that starch
in digestion brings sugar
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greatest interest IN the social problem. not
the mass Of proletariat who live their stupid
lives day al time or dream OF the might
OF miracle and Messiah 20 turn the world
upside down.
Inasmuch as Il is man that is the center
Of the social question, that question is the
focus IN which all the single questions OF
our day. call them what We may. are uni
fed Just because the question is so great,
so all-inclusive. It gathers up everything
else. born OF the creative life OF our period.
The science Of the last century. from
natural science TO mental science. did not
stop till It landed here. And even art. be-
cause the artist had a warm heart stirred
by the great questions OF our modern life.
left the sacred ideals OF beauty in the lurch
and turned 10 the bread and butter realism
Nothing can chain the attention Of man to-
day which does not bear upon the torture
ofthis problem-the contradiction-manifes
In our social parliamentary: free man
the individual, is bound in ali the ibers OF
his being to the eternal law OF humanity
and yet cannot find his right attitude 10 that
law; man who sings his proud triumphant
song OF victory over the stubborn forces OF
nature yet impotently confronts the forces
OF his own human life that mistreat him
more grevously than al the destructive
agencies OF nature itself.
Now. II this question IS the heritage
which the nineteenth century received from
the history OF its predecessors. then. too. It
is God. who has, propounded It TO our gen.
GRAFTON, who brings It home TO each and all
OF US; and then, too, It Is guilt II Is sin
against the Holy Spirit. TO stop cur ears TO
this question. to disregard the elearest
signs OF the times.
Even our churches divide on this question
One has its faith for its own private con-
sumption; herewith they pay the premium
20 insure their own little selves against
the misfortunes OF life, OF death also, IL MAY
be. Another would mount above them
selves by their faith. by faith would they
open their hearts 70 every truth. consecrate
themselves to every task. which seems TO
them TO be right and good. necessary and
therefore divine. The former kind OF faith,
no matter how pretentious and sristoeratie
II may be. IS goddess; the latter. even II Il
ApNo hoN ulANcAHtAAlA AAoN4A gtAs Hn peIAapa
It does not, IL the none religious because
Gods eternal life IS thereby present and
operative in man.
Or shall we deny that God asks questions?
DO we think that questions are our affair.
and that II is Gods affair 10 answer our
questions? On the contrary. no question
asked by man alone receives an answer
from God. Such questions would be ques-
~. not the serious questions OF conscience.
OF truth, and righteousness. Il Is by the
questions which God awakens In the human
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reject IL with mischieyous heresy
Kant Chose noted magazine editor Of Calcutta informed his
few months since that the doctrine Of rebhs invented
Buddhas time"
Whenever the theory invented reincrnation
do with original TheOsophy taught living
and writing in American but reaching India and
pulse they quickly became its advocates
puabe fact that the brightest Hndus attending
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~ HERE are few among US who have
not some acquaintance with the So
cial question. But there are not so
many who have tried 10 gain some
clear idea OF what Il is all about.
To many IL IS something 10 shudder AT
Visions OF gullotlne and rivers OF blood
as moneyless hands grasp the possessions
80 laboriously earned and 50 carefully
boarded by others-that is what many once
understood by the social question.
But that panicky and childish under
standing OF the matter is now limited to the
demagogue OF lowest rank It may in
deed. be true that here and there social
conflicts in the present may lead 10 violent
and bloody catastrophes as in the past.
But that does not reach the kernel Of the
problem; that depends entirely upon the
mental and moral average Of the opposing
forces in the conflict; that has to do with
the military tactics, so to speak. not with
the cause or object about which the war is
waged.
Therefore, others explain the social ques-
ton as the labor question. one party hold
lnr that al human lie should be regulated
accordinE 10 the economic views Of the
laborcr: another. that better, worthier, hui
naner conditions Of existence should be
provided for the laborer; still another. that
eli the laborer wants Is 10 get more and
work less-that all the labor kick shows
is that the masses are at once greedy and
lazy.
But man Of more discernment soon sees
that the social question IS also important
20 the contractor. 20 the public servant to
the teacher and schola--to all Of us, rich
or poor, man or woman-that 1t is, there
fore. far more comprehensive than the
mere labor question.
What precisely Is il, then. that agltates
Us so? What IS this social problem, this
thing which crosses our path at every turn.
which hobs up again Just when We think
We have done with It? Now 1t Is called
the stomach question" now the moral,
now The reIigious-but Il Is ever the same
problem. only looked a; from another side
Tho point that Z now urge is that the
wnolo social war Of our time is up in the
air unless We gain some clear understand
fng concerning this fundamental question
But this understanding is not TO be &C
oplred from books nor from some one man,
but fro;a the last century itself. from his
tory, and from the divine life Of which his
tory Is the revelation.
SO long as there has been human society
IT all. formed collective life of man. there
have been these conflicts which, because
they issue from the womb Of society itself.
We call social conflicts, in distinction from
political struggles where a people or a
stato vva-A war against anotbnr On
pressed classes, having no rights OF their
own--llke slaves. serfs, bondsmen-havs
Nebslled against their oppressors; uprising
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u, and happy life for taeir subjects.
In all the religious teachings the ancient wordn Bhmans
Buddhism, Taosm. and COnucnim well the teachings
he Greek and Roman alongside Of the confirmation power
those who teaching expressed in
various the teaching that mutual love means Of
uniting them the bssedne That thought
has been varouy expressed with various earness
the different teachings but 1900 was expressed
with striking dfnleness in Christianity Christianity
showed that love is intercourse
which happiness also that highest law OF life and
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EDITORIALS 'BY TTIE WAI1
Law Of Love Dt0besttn human Lite pv Count Leo

FAR back as we know the social life Of man,
we know that besides family, tribal and COM
mercial relations men were also bound To-
gether by the subsection OF the many TO one or
several rulers. This subsection of some by 9TH
ers-of the majority by the minority-was so
general to all nations and had existed so long
that all men, both those in power over the
many and those who submitted to them, con-
sdered such an arrangement of life inevitable.
natural and the only one possible for social
human existence. The rulers considered that,
being ordained by God himself to have power
over the people. they ought to try to use their
power in the best way TO secure a quiet, peace
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NOW there IS a certain Spiritual stun
allied graft II is byprOduct worth
Knowing just how it made its as it we're Here is
he formula which all apprentices the social factory
positive law plus negative local sentiment produces graft
This true not sometimes often absolutely and IN