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THE HOUSE WHERE THOMAS PAINE LIVED IN NEW YORK, 309 BLEECKER STREET, WEATHEN-BEATEN AND ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD, BUT STILL STANDING

most patriotic sentiments in American literature. Many of these are as pertinent to America's present struggle as when written nearly one hundred and fifty years ago. This quotation is from The Crisis:

It is the object only of war that makes it honourable. And if there was ever a

just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

Prescience might almost be attributed to the author of these words, also in The Crisis:

We fight not to enslave but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

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Gladstone, and secured a position in the Inland Revenue Department at Somerset House. This was in 1877, and for the first period of his life, until the appearance, in 1894, of his first book, Social Evolution, he remained utterly unknown to fame, and even his closest associates had no idea that he was in any way destined ever to be more than an ordinary civil servant with the ordinary interests and ambitions of a man in his position.

But from the beginning, behind outward appearances there existed a personality and a mind moved to tremendous efforts by an absorbing passion for knowledge. In his early years in London, Kidd was entirely alone and dependent on his own resources, which did not amount at first to more than about £80 per annum. His family were unable to give him any financial support. Although in after years it was with the greatest difficulty that he could be brought to allude to this period of his life, there is no doubt that he fought for knowledge at the cost of food and clothing, and that he even resorted to money-lenders in order to obtain the necessary fees to attend evening classes in science. He spent three years reading for the bar in his spare time after office hours, and gained a thorough grasp of the law, only to abandon the project finally on the realisation of the insufficiency of his means. He then read for the consular service, but this project also fell through for a different reason. The age qualifications were altered suddenly in such a way that he found himself excluded. Yet his main purpose was accomplished. He had become gradually master of a wide and varied knowledge of science, philosophy, literature and art. Above all

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new book, The Way Out of War, the doctor says in effect that instead of trying to cultivate the goodwill of the other nations, the Prussians are now trying to smash them, and this, carried to its logical conclusion, means that she is done for.

"Prussia," he asserts, "is protoplasmically senile. In fact, any nation that deliberately wages aggressive war is abnormal, for war is always a symptom of deficient brain development. . The relation

of war to the species is that of a destructive process in all of its final phases. The reason for that is because it exhausts a part of the fund of vital energy which belongs by natural inheritance to the germ plasm.

"Warfare by arms will probably continue for some centuries, yet, in all probability, with ever-lengthening periods of peace. According to the laws of continuity, order in nature indicates that in the end a world state will emerge, following the already accomplished union of states in larger and larger groups since the day of small tribes and clans."

The author thinks, too, that it

will not be the psychologist or the sociologist, but the jurist or the biologist who will construct the Magna Charta of peace for the nations of

to-morrow.

Mrs. Rinehart's "Creed"

When Mary Roberts Rinehart and her family went through Glacier Park and across the Cascade Mountains on horseback, the party stopped one day at Kalispell in Montana. Mrs. Rinehart wore an old felt hat, much the worse for weather and fish hooks. Sitting her horse, she was surveying the hat ruefully while she purchased a new one "a cowgirl affair," she calls it. "Suddenly," she says, "a gentleman I had never seen before, but who is green in my memory, stepped forward and presented me with his own hat band. It was of leather, and it bore this vigorous and inspiring inscription: 'Give 'er pep and let 'er buck!" In Tenting Tonight, Mrs. Rinehart tells the story of the hat band, and adds: "To-day, when I am low in my mind, I take that cowgirl hat from its re

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