"But these cosmic powers—natural laws, cover only one part of the world in which we live. The rear is covered by the wills of our fellow-men. Do these never ruggcetion of formidable possibilities Are these incapable of playing false? the forty million deities of the Hindu pantheon are a small affair when placed side by side with the far more numerous millions of men who inhabit this planet, The forty million deities are not always interfering with mundane interests... but man is always meddling in his neigh: boar's affairs, Aad as the form of society grove more compl degree of interference increases st every poiit.""
(0). "The attempt has been made to extend the reign of law' over the whole area covered by the interaction of haman wills." Just a ascertain and count upon the prinples of law in the natural world, so it may be possible to ascertain the knowledge may Intellectual culture even if it wore to issue in an establisbed system of social science or political philosophy, could do no tore than provide principles, sche-mice and machinery: it could never easare the good will which gives these things their right application, aer guard them from capture by estate conspirators... It is but Gort step from the morality of Mistasche' to the massacre of Boraberdi's Melign Work.
(6). Am illestratioa of the capture of the conquests of philosophy and science by sinister interests is afforded by wash " work as Berahardi's "Germany snd the Next War." The mtellesvaal skill of the writer ie am asia, The trained mind speaks in every page... Him knowledge of history, of ethnology, of social payehology, of econo-science im vest. His ideals of cardinal virtues enforced. Religion is described an inward experience and formalism treated with reprobation... The arguments are not heated and statements are seldom extravagant.
Up to a certain point this book is an example of what is re quired from " thinker who handles great question of human destiny.
And therein lies the tragedy. The whole sum of these vast spiritual resources is placed at the mercy, and at the service of an immoral They are the tools of 8 twisted conscience, of a bad will.
We do not understand the drama of human life until we see it in the light of its extreme pos:
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