The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-08-25
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frantic impressionistic groups is
nothing If not strenuous protest
against frozen art The changed
Sabbath and the tempered sermon
mark the coldly critical apprasement
Of religious creeds And science.
meantime, straining and sweating un
der the lash of progress, is passins
from wonder unto wonder
Perhaps Mr. elders period of lit
erary towering, though surely com
ing, must be postponed another de-
cade. The need of the moment is to
discover where we are, what is az.
complishing about us. Where have
all these struggling activities
brought us? What have they really
don't? What do they mean? Whittier
do they tend
II is time We look this question of
the present squarely in the eye, in
order If for no other reason, that we
may iptelligentlys face the future. J.,
Is time that, in business phrase we
take account of stock. 1t is time
that the chemist, for example,
trembling over the revelations of his
amazing combinations, known nat
the psychologist, too, is excited
about the astonishing developments
of his own laboratory that the elat-
ed conquerors of the air realize the
achievement of those who plod In the
grooming shops of town: that the BIZ
ologirt, amazed at his artificial propa-
CATION OF life, appreciate the tele.
graphic humiliation of space.
Change is Usually Progress.
Thus only may we wisely choose
cur steps in these uncertain times,
remembering that change is not al.
ways degeneration; oftener II is pro.
press. There are periods when men
live literature, not write il, and con.
sequensly literary barrenpess may
mean lying fallow, and stlll be pro.
gressi Especially must we net be
too hasty Of judgment, for while
there are times to preach and times
10 act and times 10 pronounce judge
mont, there are at long intervals al
70 times, between the passings out
and the comings in. when il behoov.
es all men to watch and 10 wait and
to study the signs
There are abundant reasons to be.
lleye that such time IS at hand, and
The Century, now, as in the past
stands by to help.
During the months, perhaps the
years, to come, in Or. Hollands free
spirit CT modern progress" in MIR
Gildor's spirit OF experiment" and
IN Mr.. Jchnson's spirit of public help
fu!ness. The Century will offer to
It's readers a summing-up OF the re
| ~ is of this wonderful period. and @
| lair presentation Of the important
educational artistic, social. and 9th
er changes attendant. upon the pass
| Ing CT our present order and the cs
adjustment OF the new.
"No Undertaking"
Not rs an advocate shall we pre-.
gent. these causes. nor again in pro
| test; but in the fair, free. unbia5 ed
spirit of investigation. Facts must
precedc opinions. II is poor rowing
'gainst the rapids between the lakes.
Let us study these manifestations
fairly and sympathetically before VIC
draw ccnelusions II will be The
Ceniury's pleasure and public duty
TO enliss The services OF able authori.
ties in every cause and to present
each justly from its own opint OF
view.
A Help to Human Progress
Such program will. we feel sure.
help materially the cause of human
progress, because il will hels men
and women TO comprehend life as Il
paEse!,
As for the rest, We shall conserve.
the bes. that The Century has stood
Tor IN The past. We shall offer a lar
ger proposition OF fiction ,han former
~, and shall bring 1t as near TO truth
and make IL as interpretative OF life.
as conditions allow. We shall main.
tain Illustration at the highest point
modern method will permit. We
shall cultivate history and poetry and