kind, If it be the purchase of a leg of mutton that is in question, then the price mi known and it will not be imagin-that tender of less than that price, except on a haggling basis, will change the ownership of the leg. If a man has to be rescued from a fifty-foot building, it is no good running up a twenty-foot ladder. who can hold a fire in his hand, By" thinking of the frosty Can"
casus?
cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast?
Yet, all over the world to-day, there is a tendency to invoke propaganda, to employ camouflage with the object of fitting facts to theories. Some may call this payehological appeal, others cougism or others, simply, ballyhoo. Lincoln's dictum is temporarily discarded and leaders lof movements appear to forget that chickens come home. to roost. Temporary self-deception, like "an anwsthetie, may render the patient oblivious to pain that he manages to survive critical period and pass happily to convalescence and that complete state of health wherein he can again view live through the clear eyes of sani But it is essentially a question f degree; also of time. A drug be a Kood servant; it is a erie) and death-dealing master. Those thoughts are pertinent in considering the possible results of the German Election, or rather of the culmination of the Nazi movement of which that felection is the symbol. No-one could have thought that Herr Hitler would have obtained a result very different from that recorded. His was a stage-managed appeal, made as a sequel to stage-managed gesture at Geneva, It merely has exhibited to the world a German Prometheus bound to the Tartarean rock of a wilfully iduced abnegation of accepted verities.
One day Prometheus may, be free once more to be adviser lof the gods. In the meantime the world is the poorer by his incapacity and puzzled to Know how to proceed. Is Hitlerism a mere anwsthetic or 'a fatal poison-gag to the travail of recovery? Faith in the vigour of the true German genius forbids pessimism. Yet the first impressions coming from Europe fare far from reassuring, There is apparently no present hope of much mitigation of the crowning folly of that "Aryan" obs which has shocked humanity. To the Russian people enslaved there is now added, asa complementary picture, a Germany hugging the chains of a medigeval despotism which is all the more potent because it has been able to reinforce itself with the modern machinery for lereating mass discipline. By a stroke of the petyadult Germany as accepted as gospel deliberate inversions of the record of recent history and young Germany, until further notice, has to be brought. up on the same dangerous -doctrines. It is- all very well, in the healthy reaction froma' period of overmuch applaud the
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