The Winslow mail., 1914-11-14


him. and be could forget him
self again. Rachel Borken SAT
| for a long time with him and talked
| chiefly of women in the world, and
with her was a girl named Edith Hay
don. who was already very we'll known
as cytologist. and several of the
| younger men who were working in the
place and a patient named Kahn,
poet. and Edwards, designer of plays
and shows. spent some time with him.
The talk wandered from point to point
| and came back upon itself and be
| came now earnest and now trivial, as
| the chance suggestions determined
But soon afterward Gardener wrote
| down notes of things he remembered,
and it is possible to put together again
| the outlook of Karenin upon the world
and how he thought and felt about
many of the principal things In life.
Our age" he said. has been so far
an age of scene shifting. We have
been preparing stage, clearing away
the setting Of drama that was play
ed out and growing tiresome. If
| could but sit out the first few scenes
Of the new spectacle!
I How encountered the, world had be,
| come! 1t was ailing as l am ailing
with a growth of unmeaning things
1t was entangled, feverish. confused.
1t was in sore need Of release, and I
suppose that nothing less than the VIC
lence Of those bombs could have re
leased 1t and made 1t healthy world
again. / suppose they were necessary.
Just as everything turns to evil in
| fevered body. so everything seemed
turning to evil In those last years of
the old time. Every there were
| obsolete organizations seizing upon all
the new fine things that science was
giving to the world, nationalities, all
sorts of political bodies, the churches
and sects, prOprietorship, selling upon
those great powers and limitless posi-
bilities and turning them to evil uses.
And they would not suffer open speech;
they would not permit Of education;
they would let no one be educated to
the needs of the new time. You who
are younger cannot imagine the mix
ture of desperate hope and protesting
despair In which we who could believe
in the possibilities of science lived In
those years before atomic energy came.
"It was not only that the mass of
people would not attend, would not
understand. but that those who did un,
derstand lacked the power of real be-
lief. They said the things. they saw
the things and the things meant moth
ing to them.
II have been reading some old pa
pers lately. 1t is wonderful how our
fathers bore themselves toward sci
ence. They hated it. They feared it.
They permitted a few scientific men
to exist and Work-a pitiful handful.
Don't find out anything about u.s. they
said to them; don't inflict vision upon
US; spare our little ways of life from
the fearful shaft of understanding.
But do tricks for us, little limited
tricks. Give us cheap lighting. And
cure us Of certain disagreeabe things
cure US of cancer, cure US Of consump-
ton. cure our colds and relieve US after
Gardener Science is no longer our
servant. We know it for something
greater than our little individual
selves. 1t Is the awakening mind of
the race and in a little wilhelm a lit
tie while | wish, indeed, | could /
watch for that little while now that
the curtain has risen.
while lie here they are clearing up |
what Is left of the bombs in London"
he said Then they are going to re
pair the ruins and make it all as like
as possible to its former condition be-
fore the bombs fell. Perhaps they will
dig out the old house in st. Johns
wood to which my father went after
his expulsion from Russia. That Lon
don Of my memories seems to me like
place In another world. For you
younger people 1t must seem like
place that could never have existed"
is there much left standing?'' asked
Edith Haydon.