The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-19
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 ing the epoch they were making to the question of the probabilities that lay ahead. Here every one became dimdent They could see the world unified at peace, but what detail was to follow from that unification they seemed indisposed to discuss This dfmdence struck the king as rernarka- ble. He plunged into the possibilities of science. All the huge expenditure that had hitherto gone into unproduc- tive naval and military preparations must now, he declared, place research upon a new footing. Where one man worked we will have a thousand, He appealed to Holsten. "We have only begun to peep into these possibilities he said ssYou, at any rate, have sounded the vaults of the treasure , house.
 They are unfatRonaab1e." smiled Ho1sten.
 Man" said the American, with a manifest resolve to justify and re- instate himself after the nicker4nw contradictions of the king, ssman, say, is only beginning to enter upon his heritage, 7
 Tell us some, of the things you be- ieve we shall presently learn, give us an idea of the things we may present 1y do, said the king to Holsten.
 Holsten opened out vistas.
 Science" the king cried presently. s.is the new king of the world
 Our view said the president, sis that sovereignty resides with the peo- ple.''
 seNo, said the king, the sovereign is a being more subtle than that. And less arithmeticaI Neither my family nor your emancipated people. It is something that floats about us and above us and through us. 1t is that common, fmpersonal will and sense of necessity Of which science is the best understood and most typical as- pect It is the mind of the race. It is that which has brought us here. which has bowed us all to 3ts de mands.
 He paused and glanced down the table at Leblanc and then reopened at his former antagonist.
 There is a disposition,'' said the king, ito regard this gathering as if it was actually doing what it appears to be doing, as if we ninety odd men of our own free will and wisdom were unifying the world. There is temp tation to consider ourselves exceptions
 
 and all the rest of it. We are not doubt if we should average out as any- thing abler than any other casually selected body of ninety odd men. We are no creators; we are consequences, we are salvagers or salvagees. The thing today is not ourselves, but the wind of conviction that has blown us hither.''
 The American had to confess he could hardly agree with the kings es- timate of their average
 sHolsten, perhaps, and one or two others might lift us 1fttIe.. the king conceded. "But the rest of us?'
 His eye fitted once more toward Le- blanc
 Look at Leblanc he said. He's just simple soul. There are hundreds and thousands like him. I admit a certain de1terity, certain lucidity, but there. is not a country town in France where there is not a Leblanc or so to be found about o'clock in It's principal cafe. It's just that he isn't complicated or super-mannish or any of those things that have made all he has done possible. But in happier times, don't you think, Wilhelm, he would have remained just what bis fa- ther was--a successful epicier, very clean, very accurate, very honest? And on holidays he would have gone out with, Mme ,Lablanc and her knitting in punt with jar of somathing gen tie and have sat under a large, reason able, green lined umbrella and hshed very neatly and successfully for gud- geon.,'
 The president and the Japanese prince in spectacles protested together. n I1S--, S,,I +4z.oy i'd king, s.it is only because want to elu- cidate mysargument. I want to make it clear how small are men and days and how great is man in comparison"
 So it was King Egbert talked at Bris- sago after they had proclaimed the uni- ty of the world. Every evening after that the assembly dfned together and talked at their ease and grew accus- toned to each other and sharpened each others ideas, and every day they worked together and really for a time believed that they were inventing a new government for the world They discussed constitution But there were matters needing attention too urgently to wait for any constitution They attended to these incidentally. The constitution it was that waited It was presently found convenient to keep the constitution waiting indefinite 1y, as King Egbert had foreseen, and meanwhile with an increasing self con ndence that council went on governing.
 On this first evening of all the coun- els gatherings, after King Egbert had talked for a long time and drunken and praised very abundantly the sim pie red wine of the country that Le- blanc had procured for them, he gath cred about him group of congenial spirits and fell into a discourse upon simplicity, praising it above all things and declaring that the ultimate aim of art, religion, philosophy and science alike was to simplify He instanced himself as devotee to simplicity. And LeblsDc he tnstanced as a crowning in