The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-28

ward but love. To take Him serious
ly was to enter upon strange and alarming
life, to abandon habits. to control instincts
and impulses. to essay an incredible hap
piness.
rs it any wonder that TO this day this
Galilean is too much for small hearts?"
Having judged the rulers Of the earth by
the high standard of service. Wells could
not excuse the supreme example Of selfish
ness. Napoleon is the villain Of his drama,
not because he committed worse crimes than
ether men, but because he came to power
in a period of higher privilege and had par
taken of the bread of brotherhood in the
Revolution. Thus runs the Indictment
Hitherto the kings and potentates Of
the world had taken themselves in good
faith, had had the support of religion in
their consciences had believed they were
serving God in their kingship, and that
they were necessary to mankind and bene-
fetal to mankind. But Napoleon
knew himself for what he was. an individ-
ual man getting the better of his fellow
man. With Napoleon, we note
the beginning of a, clearer headed age. The
self-deceptions of wealth, power and promi-
hence wearIthin"
In such a passage we have the key to
this new house of history II Is built for
TIE general assembly of all mems minds.
Here is free man writing for his free
fellows their own story. And perhaps the
greatest service Wells performs is in giving
us all a method whereby we may put to-
eether our own structures, for the only
history that is real to man is the con-
ception which finally takes shape in his
cwn mind which becomes "A motive for his
own acts that help to make the history OF
the future In this view any printed book
is only means This is Wellss close:
History is and must always be more
than an account Of beginnings. We can
venture to prophesy that the next chapters
to be written will tell though perhaps with
long interludes of setback and disaster, OF
the final achievement of worldwide political
and social unity But when that is attained
1, will mean no resting stage, nor even
breathing stage before the development of
q new struggle and of new and vaster ef-
forts Men will unity only to intensity the
search for knowledge and power and live
as over for new occasions Life
begins perpetually. Gathered together at
last under the leadership of man, the stu
cent-teacher Of the universe unified. disci-
plned armed with the secret powers of the
atom and with knowledge as yet beyond
dreaming. life forever dying to be born
afresh, forever young and eager will pres
emily stand upon this earth as upon
footstool and stretch out its realm amid the
stars"
History is not as we have too generally
taken for granted. a separate optional
course in life's university. The grocer is in
IT, the preacher and the dentist the miliner
and the chauffeur But few Of them realize
the truth Wells procams it, This his
tory" he cries that kings and generals
have tried to monopoize is ours. Let us all
learn il and take a conscious part"
Consciousness is the beginning of new
life Louis XIV asserted in the climax of
kingship THE state, IL is myself" When
every man says 81 am history" the new
world will come into being.