Capitolo 30
corresponding readjustments in our constitutional setups and
political apparatus. Tennyson prefigured him/it all in his/her Room of "Locksley"
seventy years ago:--"The individual withers, and the world is more and
more." The day of the individualism as it existed in the ideal American of
sixty years since you/he/she is ended; that of collectivism and possibly the socialism
you/he/she has opened. The day of the social equality is relegated to what can be
considered a rather past having past,--so patriarchal and patriarchal
still comes to a closing during the memory of that in the active life.
And anchor, although all this you/he/she can now be studied in the political discussion
boundlessly dragging on, oddly and sadly enough that discussion
not door really in him one note of encouragement. It is, in a word,
inexpressibly little depth. And here, sufficiently having for my present
purpose although in hasty way, it diagnosed the they situation,--located the
makes to sit of disturbance,--us comes to the question of treatment. Involving,
as necessarily ago, problems of the supreme law of the land and a
rearrangement and the different allocation of the functions of government,
this challenge the nearest thought of the journalist. What a the problem
it is here crying to tall voice for solution it is apparent. The publications that
cumber the boxes of our book-shop, those for that the greatest
to-day of popular call exists--treated relative to affairs of work, to
collectivism, to the socialism also to the anarchy--says the history partly; in
divides it is elsewhere and otherwise says. Only recently, in once Puritanical
Massachusetts, unthreads in procession paraded that the roads that bring flags you/they have marked
with this equipment, more suggestive that strange:--"Anybody master and no God!"
Are the remedies generally proposed what? In that important branch of
polity known as Political Ethics, or, as he called them Hermeneutics,,
what Your Teacher Lieber strove him to treat sixty years ago of, that that