The Washington times., 1921-12-11

imagined was descended fir
Hippocrates had set in the temple
at Delphi among the divine statues
q bronze skeleton. splendidly con-
structed. He thought to place on .
sacred pedestal model Of world
accomplished beauty formed after
logical necessity.
Thus before the war we saw Man
like the giant before the deluge.
ready to sweep creation.
Heir to all the virtues and ex-
periences accumulated by anterior
generations; armed with invisible
weapons snatched from nature in
order to use them against herself:
obliged to multiply the efforts of his
will IN order to be equal to the
Cosmic energy concentrated In him
self and which was ready to over
whelm and slay him; elevated above
pleasure, above woe and pain. by
the pure wish to hunt new obstacles,
new dangers. new aims for his bold
ness; Man was not any more . crea-
ture expecting his redemption-a
human awaiting divine election-but
an animal already elected at birth
to q vast and most powerful life
work Of divine essence.
In your country. In the country
Of greatest aocumulators and manu-
fActurers Of wealth and strength.
more than anywhere else. the human
being IL dominated from the heights
of his self-erected pedestal.
But the world conflict came. And
from year to year. from horror to
horror. from heroism to heroism.
from defeat to defeat. from victory
to victory. It was seen how war In
truly Of divine essence.
In fact the divine quality Of Mars
was never 90 perfectly demonstrated
a. In this last great conflict The
elementary and mysterious forces OF
Divinity overwhelmed Man and put
him from his pedestal world
Man was a nothing. The heroic
act Of the individual appeared only
a. . lamp to light and magnify In
finitely the divine spirit of heroism.
Too Tardily Recognized.
And this sentiment was too tardfly
recognized by the survivors in the
honors that have been paid to the
unknown soldiers.
Nobody knew what was simmer
ing in the pot Of the future. The
most perspicacious Of us knew only
that we were 1t tho beginning Of a
new Genesis. but did not distinguish
either the road to be followed or
the milestones along the way.
What were the leaders Of tho war
WORTH
What were the statesmen WORTH
Even in the climax of battle their
gestures showed their implacabls
obtuseness and at tho hour Of solemn
council their words resounded false
and vain.
Hands Of An Intriguer.
Tell me in truth whether the
armed chief is as he appears. tied
to his work al an artisan to his
desk; tell me the truth. which has
the aspect Of a creator-which seems
adult in stature and in BREADTH
Perhaps the facile manipulation of
expedients and lies who has been ex-
pected at Washington will draw the
council from its embarrassment with
a gracious conclusion.
Regard we'll his hands. They are
the hands Of an intriguer. the hands
Of a plotter. the hands OF a falsifier.
the same hands which worked by
stealth in Paris.
It IL safer to monopolize certain
oil fields than to forge a great
destiny. The fate Of tho world is
accomplished according to the will
of statesmen who are busy swelling
the bladder of their lies, hoping to
be taken as Illuminating fires.
Pity and loathe them!
New Genesis Begun.
With the end Of the great war a
new Genesis Is begun, led by a
thoughtful hope of preordinated de-
sign against which Intriguing.
cheating, illusions. procrastinations
and COMPUTATIONS will be of no
value, just as the an1ieties of
March are valueless against the
gertrude Of spring.
The worlds new phase IL the un.
questionable fatality Of seassu, for
history, too. has its seasons. and
this one is bitterly hard and cold.
Americans have clear foresight.
VIII they, can they. be persuaded
to stare destiny straight In the
face7
Whatever their fate is. iron can
be opposed only by iron. Iron sunk
In the depths of the seas has not
value, either real or ideal. 1t will
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