A TRIUMPH OF CIVILIZATION

A woman beot and haggard, croaldng a dismal song. And tbe great Windows stare upon her wretcbedness, and acro68 tfae road upon each otfaer, With Wg fool eyes ;

But not a door is oponed, not a face is seen. No form of life down ail the dreary street, To oertify the existence of humanity — Other than hers.^

Read his Empire* and The British* The Lancashire MiU-hand,^ Portland ; • and you will hear the soiind of the nnsparing lash, the groaning of a spirit that feels the world-burden as ils own, and the indignant railing of one who faces the sordid, ugly, brutish, crael, inhuman side of modem civilization.

But — some one may be supposed to say — ^if this civilization with aU its taie of woes is a necessary stage in communal development towards a higher unity, why make ail this fuss? The answer is, because this process is taking place within humanity ; it is not something happening in the etheric spaces between individuals, but it involves the individuals themselves, The challenge against evil is not uttered as a matter of choice on the part of the challenger, but of necessity. What imposes the necessity? The présence and the urge in the man's heart of That whose arrivai créâtes the ferment and opposition, but whose inévitable triumph will establish an oxdet—' the finished, free society " •— trans-

1 r. /)., p. 269. « Ibid,, p. 462. » Ibtd., p. 467.

* Ibid., p. 483. • Ibid., p. 468. * Ibid., p. 287.