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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Psycho-Phone Messages, by Francis Grierson
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+Title: Psycho-Phone Messages
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+PSYCHO-PHONE MESSAGES
+
+RECORDED BY FRANCIS GRIERSON
+
+Spiritual Messages from the late General U. S. Grant, on Adequate
+Preparation in America; Thomas Jefferson, on the Future of American
+Democracy; Benjamin Disraeli, on English and Irish Affairs; Prince
+Bismarck, on the Indemnities; John Marshall, on the Psychology of the
+Supreme Court of the United States; Alexander Hamilton, on the Forces that
+Precede Revolution; Abraham Lincoln, on the Future of Mexico; Robert
+Ingersoll, on Our Great Women; Henry Ward Beecher, on the New Puritanism;
+Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, on President Harding; General B. H. Grierson, on
+Japan, Mexico and California, etc.
+
+
+
+
+  PSYCHO-PHONE
+  MESSAGES
+
+
+  RECORDED BY
+  FRANCIS GRIERSON
+
+
+  Published by
+  AUSTIN PUBLISHING COMPANY
+  Los Angeles, California
+
+
+
+
+  Copyright, June 1921
+  By B. F. Austin
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+The word "psycho-phone" was first suggested and used by Mr. Francis
+Grierson in a lecture I heard him deliver before the Toronto Theosophical
+Society, August 31st, 1919, a year before Thomas Edison announced his
+intention of devising an instrument which he hopes will serve to establish
+intercourse between our world and the world of spirit.
+
+My own experiences as a student in this sphere of psychic research in
+Europe and America, covering a period of thirty years, convince me that we
+have here a revelation of a new mode of spiritual communication unlike
+anything heretofore given to the world, not only different in quality but
+different in purpose.
+
+From personal knowledge I can state that the recorder of these messages
+has not acted on ideas advanced by anyone living on our plane.
+
+Looking back over the past two decades, I am led to believe that Mr.
+Grierson's predictions in "The Invincible Alliance," and in that startling
+poem, "The Awakening in Westminster Abbey," forecasting the war and the
+tragic events in Ireland, were spiritual and psycho-phonic in character.
+
+From 1909 to 1911 Francis Grierson was the acknowledged leading writer on
+"The New Age," of London, which at that time had as contributors, H. G.
+Wells, Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, the two Chestertons, Hillaire
+Belloc--in one word, all the most prominent writers and advanced thinkers
+in Britain, yet not one of them except Mr. Grierson could see the
+approaching world upheaval.
+
+Early in 1909 he published a series of articles in that weekly depicting
+the coming war, and nothing of so drastic a nature had ever appeared in an
+English publication. In the spring of 1913 these articles were published
+in book form in London and New York under the title of "The Invincible
+Alliance."
+
+In the Westminster Abbey composition, published in "The New Age" in 1910,
+the characteristics of four personalities are plainly manifest--Coleridge,
+Milton, Shelley and Shakespeare--and I have not forgotten the sensation
+caused by this great work in London at the time of its appearance.
+
+Having had occasion to study the social and psychic conditions in France,
+Germany, Italy, Austria and England before the great war, and after having
+been an eye witness of scenes unique in the annals of musical inspiration
+in the artistic and literary circles of Europe as well as the most
+intellectual of the royal courts, in which Mr. Grierson was the central
+figure, I now have a better understanding of the work he accomplished and
+its far-reaching import. The more complex the work the longer must be the
+preparation, and we are now confronted with what will appear to many as
+the most interesting phase of Mr. Grierson's psychic gifts, for the seer
+who ushered in the new mystical movement by the publication of "Modern
+Mysticism" in 1899 is now the recorder of messages which must induce
+thinking and unprejudiced minds to pause and consider such matters in a
+new light, and it is to be hoped that many more messages like these may
+be recorded by the same hand.
+
+As I write, I have before me a unique collection of letters written to Mr.
+Grierson by men and women eminent in philosophy, art, music, literature
+and journalism, in Europe and America. Among the letters that Mr. Grierson
+values the most in this remarkable album are eight from members of the
+French Academy, with Sully Prudhomme, winner of the first Noble Prize,
+heading the list. Which reminds me that I heard him say one evening in
+Paris, after hearing Mr. Grierson's music: "You have placed me on the
+threshold of the other world. There are not words in the French language
+to express what I have felt tonight!" Up to that moment the famous
+Academician had been known as an avowed agnostic.
+
+Maeterlinck writes that the first Grierson volume (in French) influenced
+him more than any book he had ever read. There are four letters from the
+Belgian mystic.
+
+This album is filled with expressions from the most authoritative minds in
+literature and art, as well as statesmen, soldiers and diplomats, such as
+Jules Simon, the Duc de Broglie, Lord Lytton, British ambassador at Paris;
+Lord Reading, British ambassador at Washington; Field Marshall Lord
+Wolseley, General B. H. Grierson, U.S.A., leading members of the Bonaparte
+family in Paris, Prince Henri of Orleans (son of Louis Philippe), Princess
+Eulalia of Spain, and crowned heads who gave receptions in Mr. Grierson's
+honor during the past thirty years. There are letters from distinguished
+Americans, such as Col. Henry Watterson (who wrote two long editorials on
+Mr. Grierson in the Louisville "Courier Journal"), Henry Mills Alden,
+editor of "Harper's Monthly," Prof. William James, Marion Reedy, Edwin
+Markham, Edith Thomas, Mary Austin, and many leading professors of
+Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin
+and California.
+
+Edwin Bjorkman says, in his "Voices of Tomorrow":--
+
+"To Francis Grierson belongs the honor of having first attained to
+prophetic vision of the common goal. In his first volume, published in
+Paris in 1889, he suggested every idea which since then has become
+recognized as essential not only to Bergson and Maeterlinck but to the
+constantly increasing number of writers engaged in making the time
+conscious of its own spirit. As we read essay after essay it is as if we
+beheld the globe of life revolving slowly between us and some unknown
+source of light."
+
+The following remarks from the London "Outlook" seem to me pertinent to
+the subject:--
+
+"Grierson is an Englishman, for he was born in Cheshire; Scotland may
+justly claim him in that he is a direct descendent of Sir Robert Grierson,
+the famous Laird of Lag, who is the hero of Scott's novel, 'The Red
+Gauntlet'; that America has had a part in the making of him all readers of
+that wonderful book, 'The Valley of Shadows,' know; France can claim him
+since he began his musical career in Paris and published his first book in
+French; but no special country can claim to have developed his
+genius--that is cosmopolitan."
+
+As "Current Opinion" says, in a long study: "He presents a unique
+combination of thinker, writer, artist and musician who owes nothing to
+any school or any master or system of training; and his experience is
+without a parallel in the intellectual world of our day."
+
+LAWRENCE WALDEMAR TONNER,
+
+
+  245-1/2 So. Spring St.
+    Los Angeles, California.
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD
+
+
+These messages were begun in September, 1920, and the last was recorded in
+May, 1921. I little dreamed that many of the predictions set forth would
+be verified so soon. For names, in themselves, count for nothing. The
+subliminal mind may assume different names on different occasions. A
+message is of value exactly in proportion to the information imparted.
+
+The first communication from General Grant was recorded September ninth.
+It is peremptory in tone, and contains a warning touching the insecurity
+of the Panama Canal. In November Mr. Harding made a tour of inspection and
+found the fortifications of the Canal inadequate. I then decided on the
+publication of these messages.
+
+They deal with the actual. Take, for example, John Marshall's documents,
+which are filled with warnings no reader with intelligence will attempt to
+refute, Disraeli's indictment of English statesmanship in recent times,
+Lincoln's utterances on affairs in Europe and Mexico, General Grant on
+Preparation, Benjamin Franklin on the Privilege of Liberty, Bishop
+Phillips Brooks on the Coming Ordeals, to name but a few.
+
+As a Judge sums up, regardless of who may or may not agree, a decision is
+rendered according to the vision of the one who delivers the message.
+Principle, not Party, is the basis of judgment.
+
+Witness Disraeli's remark that the blunders committed by the British
+Parliament would have been impossible in an Irish Parliament in Dublin.
+
+In a series of articles in "Nash's Magazine" Mr. Basil King suggests that
+"the means of communication with the plane next above us may be through
+the everlasting doors which the subliminal opens upward. Through these
+doors the mind may go up and out; through these doors the light may come
+in and down."
+
+In our group of investigators we have had the perseverence essential for
+serious development, and, as in all demonstrations, whether physical or
+psychical, everything depends on conditions, so we have had periods of
+weeks when no message of any kind was received.
+
+A striking feature of these communications is their freedom from restraint
+imposed by popular opinion. They contain neither theories nor appeals.
+Warnings are uttered concerning events and their inevitable reactions.
+
+The psycho-phonic waves, by which the messages are imparted, are as
+definite as those received by wireless methods.
+
+FRANCIS GRIERSON.
+
+Los Angeles, California
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                              PAGE
+
+  Introduction                                                   5
+
+  Foreword                                                      13
+
+  Thomas Reed, of Maine, Late Speaker of the House, on the
+  Peace League                                                  21
+
+  General U. S. Grant, on Adequate Preparation in America       24
+
+  General U. S. Grant (second message)                          27
+
+  Thomas Jefferson, on the Future of American Democracy         30
+
+  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, on the Future of American Women       33
+
+  Benjamin Franklin, on the Privilege of Liberty                43
+
+  John Marshall, "The Expounder of the Constitution," on the
+  Psychology of the Supreme Court                               46
+
+  Daniel Webster, on "Bohemian" Statesmen                       47
+
+  Oliver Wendell Holmes, on the New Eden                        49
+
+  Benjamin Wade, Late Governor of Ohio, U. S. Senator, on
+  President Harding                                             51
+
+  Don Piatt, Late Editor of "The Capital," Washington,
+  D. C., on Prohibition and the Blue Laws                       55
+
+  Benjamin Disraeli, on English and Irish Affairs               58
+
+  Prince Bismarck, on Germany and the Indemnities               63
+
+  Henry Ward Beecher, on the New Puritanism                     70
+
+  John Marshall, on Liberty and the League (second message)     74
+
+  Abraham Lincoln, on the Future of Mexico                      79
+
+  Robert Ingersoll, on Our Great Women                          82
+
+  Stephen A. Douglass, on War Between England and America       83
+
+  General B. H. Grierson, on Japan and California               85
+
+  Alexander Hamilton, on the Forces that Precede Revolution     89
+
+  Phillips Brooks, on The Coming Ordeals                        93
+
+
+
+
+Psycho-phone Messages
+
+
+
+
+THOMAS B. REED
+
+(Late Speaker of the House)
+
+Recorded September seventh, 1920.
+
+
+The formidable imbecility of the Senate rivaled the fantastic irritability
+of the President.
+
+Born with a Utopian temperament, Mr. Wilson has a Herculean passion for
+generalities and a Lilliputian penchant for details.
+
+You scratched the Teutons at Versailles and found a new species of Tartar;
+you scratched the Japanese and found a Pacifist camouflage; you scratched
+the Poles and found a pianist with his hair uncut; you scratched the
+French and found a tiger with his claws unclipped. Your mania for
+scratching other nations will keep your nails manicured without the aid of
+scissors.
+
+Never since the Declaration of Independence and the first peal of the
+Liberty Bell did a chief executive walk up a winding stair into so pretty
+a parlor as when Mr. Wilson, with the naivete of a Princeton president,
+faced that cacophony of sectional jazz bands to witness the cryptic
+hand-writing on the wall at the peace table. Who was his adviser? Was it a
+gentleman with owl spectacles from the oil fields of Texas? And was there
+no one who could have cautioned him against the finesse of Clemenceau who
+spent sixty years sharpening his wits on the political grindstone of
+Europe? Was no one in America aware that the French Premier is a fluent
+speaker in English?
+
+Mr. Wilson could speak no French, which reminds me that Jack Spratt could
+eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean, and so betwixt them both they
+licked the platter clean. But a clean plate does not mean a clean slate,
+and the President brought one home filled with the riddle of the Sphinx.
+Yet the Peace Conference revealed the secret of perpetual motion and
+conferred a timely service, for the hubbub created by the
+Wilson-Lansing-House-Party at Versailles kept the Senate from passing into
+a trance.
+
+A blind man can tell the difference between pepper pods and apple
+dumplings, but who can tell where tweedle-dee ends and tweedle-dum begins?
+No one. Then how can your statesmen distinguish between the psychological
+characteristics of the Hungarians and the Bohemians, the Bavarians and the
+Saxons, the difference between a polka and a polonaise, a pig in a stye
+and a pig in a slaughter house?
+
+Patriotism often depends on an influence too subtle for analysis, and yet
+they would enact drastic laws to bind all Europe in one bond. They will
+hardly succeed in a thousand years.
+
+Some pay through the nose, some through the pocket and some through the
+stomach. Americans are paying through all three. Danton declared the
+secret of the French Revolution was audacity, and audacity, and again
+audacity, but what you need today is vigilance repeated ad infinitum.
+
+I am placing you in communication with some of the most far-reaching minds
+of the past hundred and fifty years. The psycho-phone is new and we are
+using it for the first time.
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE GENERAL U. S. GRANT
+
+Recorded September Ninth, 1920
+
+
+The imbroglio started by President Carranza is beginning to influence the
+politicians of Buenos Ayres and other centers in South America. They have
+secretly repudiated the Monroe Doctrine. Their next maneuver will be a
+public repudiation.
+
+I would say to Congress, stop juggling with phrases and attend to the
+business of the hour. The majority have been chasing shadows in a sphere
+of politics illumined by moonshine bottled in the Blue Ridge. I was more
+careful of my brand. When President Lincoln asked for the label, so he
+could recommend it to other generals, he was not far wrong in his
+surmises. It is not so much the thing as the quality that counts. Most of
+you at Washington will have to learn the difference between inhibition and
+prohibition.
+
+The United States will be isolated within three years from this date if
+the blowhards from the woolly constituencies are not suppressed. You need
+a broncho buster in the Senate and a donkey muzzler in the House.
+
+When a boycott is started by the countries south of the Union your enemies
+in Europe will begin to act. It is not a question of commerce but of
+common sense. I repeat what Lincoln said in 1862: "The times are dark and
+the spirits of ruin are abroad in all their power."
+
+My message to Congress is: See that fifty thousand troops are stationed
+permanently near the District of Columbia.
+
+My message to the Governors of New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois is: Get
+ready! The troops on the borders of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona are
+inadequate. The fortifications of the Panama and at San Diego and San
+Pedro are inadequate. You are in the same condition the French were in
+previous to 1789, when the motto was, "After us the Deluge." The Deluge
+came but it did not consist of water.
+
+Our foes of the old Germany and the new Russia count on crippling the
+United States through South America, with the aid of Japan; but he who
+delivers the first blow will be the victor.
+
+The Germans still believe they can eventually invade France, enter Paris
+and cause a revolution, found a new empire to include France, Belgium,
+Holland and Switzerland, with Italy later on. This dream includes a
+practical understanding with Soviet Russia, which, by that time, they
+expect would be weary of futile experiments. Plots will be exposed that
+will make it apparent how vain some of your optimistic surmises have been.
+Diplomats who are not psychologists will be balked by developments in
+Switzerland, that nation having become the rendezvous of disillusioned
+wire-pullers without a country.
+
+You are now at the cross roads. Take the wrong turning and you will come
+to the skull and cross bones.
+
+I could say much more but we are not yet experts in this new mode of
+inter-communication and must be brief.
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL U. S. GRANT.
+
+(Second Message)
+
+Recorded May Third, 1921
+
+
+I concur with Alexander Stephens when he says: "Congress has never been so
+supine and so serpentine."
+
+Millions are sent to the people of distant countries in no way related to
+our Government or people, and yet Congress permits thousands of veterans
+of the great war to continue in a state of neglect, suffering and
+humiliation.
+
+Do the authorities believe that when the day of trial arrives the friends
+and relatives of these veterans will hurry to volunteer for active
+service? The country is being fascinated by incidents and events in
+far-off regions, and the tragic conditions at home have entered a chronic
+stage.
+
+There are too many old men in Congress--men who never did more than fight
+grasshoppers or watch a game of football from reserved seats.
+
+We do not like the looks of the President's pronunciamento. It contains
+too many side issues. He is making Mr. Wilson's mistake of being verbose.
+Mr. Wilson tried to hypnotize Europe; the Senate is trying to hypnotize
+Mr. Harding. Popularity breeds as much contempt as familiarity. No
+President can ever succeed in conciliating all classes, sections and
+parties.
+
+The politicians of Buenos Ayres have now spoken as I predicted in my first
+message. They have attacked Mr. Harding for his speech on Pan-Americanism,
+all which goes to prove that the President is repeating for South America
+Mr. Wilson's blunders in France.
+
+Remember what Lincoln said to Judge Whitney:--
+
+"Those fellows think I don't see anything, but I see all around them. I
+see better what they want to do with me than they do themselves."
+
+The politicians of South America see better what the President wants to do
+with them than he does himself.
+
+The administration will face a critical period in the early fall. There
+will be a break in the dominant phalanx. A social and political
+readjustment will compel mediation in quarters the most unexpected.
+
+The new political and commercial dispensation for the English-speaking
+countries will begin on September twenty-second at two P.M.
+
+
+
+
+THOMAS JEFFERSON
+
+
+Few politicians understand the difference between scene-shifting and
+progress. Things shift, new names are applied, but the vicious circle
+continues.
+
+I see no evidence that human nature has changed since my time, in this or
+any other country.
+
+If the Republican Ship of State is leaking, the Democratic craft is
+drifting without sail or rudder. What your statesmen fail to understand is
+that progress is not induced by force but by free will. New political
+planks rammed into your platforms against the wishes of the majority are
+without significance. The phrase, "The Solid South," which meant something
+vital at one time, has no meaning in these days of quick change and
+movie-show influences.
+
+Democracy, in some sections, is a matter of climate. If you have come to a
+point where science and sentimentality are engaged in a drastic war, then
+the Democratic phalanx must undergo some rude changes.
+
+The Democratic tail wagged the Republican dog for some time, but that
+curious spectacle has lost its hold on public interest. It is not now a
+question of one end wagging the other, but who will wag both. If
+Republicans stand for crude force, and Democrats for antebellum
+sentimentality, both are doomed together.
+
+In the South, Democracy means politics at the polls, aristocracy in the
+parlor. In the North, Republicanism means the aristocracy of wealth.
+
+However, your conception of social equality is undergoing modification.
+
+In Washington's time the slogan was revolution; in Lincoln's time it was
+abolition; in your time it is prohibition, which reminds me that laws
+passed in haste bring long periods of repentance.
+
+Effective effrontery is the result of courageous ignorance, for millions
+are more easily influenced by illusive promises than by the lessons of
+experience.
+
+Modern civilization has hurried to meet four deadly things--riches,
+pleasures, materialism and war. But the tortoise is a better example of
+progress than the hare fleeing before the greyhound.
+
+
+
+
+ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
+
+
+It appalls the normal mind to stop and consider the criminal blunders made
+by the educated Prussian and the educated Englishman prior to 1914. No
+statesman had the vision to see what was going to happen to the man-made
+world.
+
+Since it is a question of intuition and feeling versus cold reason and
+business logic, let us see which side is the more vital and all-enduring.
+Let us consider for a brief space what it is that influences people. Let
+us consider the influence exerted by the arts. What is music? Emotion
+created by sound vibrations. What is dramatic acting? Emotion created by
+vocal vibrations combined with gesture and physical movement. Has anyone
+ever witnessed automatic acting that left a profound impression?
+
+Orators become famous when they unite deep feeling with knowledge. But
+what gives expression? The power of awakening emotion in others. Feeling
+is always more convincing than intellect. Intellect is full of theories,
+notions and superstitions. But where you find deep feeling combined with
+knowledge, you will find reason directed by qualities which pass through
+the surface and attain the heart-throbs of the real.
+
+There are many kinds of emotion. There is the hard emotion of anger, the
+confused emotion of fear, the painful emotion of jealousy, the
+indescribable emotion of despair, the radiant emotion of joy. But the
+greatest emotion of all is that of knowledge united to feeling.
+
+Men, as a rule, speak of emotion as a weakness, and they confuse it with
+impulse--a very different thing. Impulse is often the result of weak
+nerves, uncontrolled by the will; but we must not confuse it with the
+emotional quality which underlies all great achievement in art,
+literature, philosophy and personality. The more impulsive the individual
+is, the more primitive the reasoning faculty.
+
+English and American business men are limited in general knowledge. I have
+never been able to discover any distinctive difference between the two.
+In France and Italy many business men are able to discuss art, literature
+and music on the same level with the masters. The Latin races and the
+Celtic races possess a culture that can be traced back for two or three
+thousand years, but Anglo-Saxon culture only to the time of the Saxon
+invasion. The Anglo-Saxons were the mushrooms of our civilization. They
+were a stolid business people who lacked creative genius.
+
+The outstanding intellect of England today is Celtic. The Scotch, the
+Irish and the Welsh combine emotion and power with tenacity of purpose,
+and it is this Celtic element that keeps America in the front rank of
+nations.
+
+What women have been opposing is the primitive monotony of the Anglo-Saxon
+trend. It has meant a mixture of politics and commerce so primitive and so
+naive that Frenchmen are amazed when they visit America and note the
+striking difference between the culture of the women and the mentality of
+the average man.
+
+One of your great mystics has said: "The chemical constituents of human
+bodies is the same. The ashes of a saint and the ashes of a sinner give
+the same chemical results. As human bodies they are the same, but their
+functions separate them and make them totally different, so that the
+difference cannot by any hocus-pocus of metaphysics or magic be bridged or
+spanned."
+
+Two things of the same material are really different if their functions
+are different. The real substance of a thing is in its function. We have
+to judge people by the things they do, not by their appearance; for there
+is no clear understanding between two persons whose aims are different.
+This is why there are so many divorces. This is why so many intellectual
+women live separate lives from their husbands in the same house.
+
+People seem to be similar and equal but they differ according to their
+functions. If we take a philosopher, a hangman and a sailor who appear to
+be equal as human beings we shall see that in their functions there is
+nothing in common. The souls of these men are different in the very
+nature, origin and purpose of their existence.
+
+Thousands of people move in a world of material shadows while their souls,
+the substance of which is intellectual and spiritual, inhabit a sphere
+absolutely apart. Especially is this the case with many of the cultured
+women of our time who are compelled to live a double life. Their
+intellects are far removed from the ordinary pursuits of the commercial
+world.
+
+A woman of spiritual culture who marries a commercial man has married a
+shadow. A woman of high ideals who marries a professional politician has
+hitched her motor car to a meteor. A romantic woman married to a
+multi-millionaire whose world is bound in liberty bonds loses her liberty.
+A metaphysical woman who marries a financier is handicapped by the
+physical.
+
+A union of spiritual functions with material formulas is impossible, for
+there is no way in which mere sensation can be made to harmonize with the
+higher emotions.
+
+The new era of woman, which is just beginning to dawn, will direct
+education; and through education, politics; through politics, the progress
+of nations. Heretofore, the commercial and political world had a free
+hand. The progressive element was confined to a limited number of men in
+the colleges and the ministry, together with a remnant of law-makers. But
+their influence was negative owing to lack of material support.
+
+Women will now present a formidable force in numbers, backed by a
+spiritual power, aided by men who understand the difference between
+functions and appearance, sensuous desires and ideal emotions.
+
+For years I maintained that women do not realize the power they possess.
+They live so much in a world of their own that they do not regard the
+man-made commercial world as worth elevating.
+
+Thousands of men are living in a sphere some degrees below the normal.
+They have been surrounded from the beginning with influences that
+obliterate all the higher faculties of the mind.
+
+It has taken woman some centuries to rise to power, but the work is only
+half done. Never can the commercial instinct and the intellectual ideal be
+made to harmonize. The two spheres of consciousness are totally distinct.
+
+The modern intellect has been organized without considering the moral
+meaning of its activity. This has caused the delusion that the crowning
+glory of European culture is the dreadnaught. Ninety per cent of all
+modern inventions are for bodily destruction or bodily comfort. While the
+body lolls in luxury, the spirit is soused in lethargy.
+
+As Ouspensky says, we have created two lives--one material, the other
+spiritual. I believe this is owing to the fact that man is living and
+working in the material and woman in the spiritual. In other words, she is
+carrying her own responsibilities on one shoulder and man's baneful
+burdens on the other. The figure of Atlas holding up the Globe should be
+changed to that of a female.
+
+One would think that in these days, when psychology is taught even to
+children, that a man who has lived forty years in the world of action
+would know better than to boast of his eternal activities. The word "busy"
+has grown to be a veritable fetish with thousands who have little or
+nothing to do. The truth is, most men are not half as busy as they seem
+and not more than a fourth as wise as they look.
+
+We have to find out by exact analysis just what incentive lies behind
+people's actions. What makes the distinction is the quality of our acts.
+Everything in the material and the spiritual worlds is judged according to
+quality. Gold, diamonds, clothes, bricks, music, poetry, literature, are
+adjudged, in the last resort, on the basis of intrinsic value. When people
+are engaged in pursuits for the sake of money the results will be on a
+plane with the quality of the incentive.
+
+In the work done by women in the past fifty years in this country, the
+incentive has been of a higher quality than that shown by men.
+
+While men introduced a coarse realism into the novel, women saved the
+situation by new ideals. I do not think there would be much left worth
+reading today but for woman's taste and judgment.
+
+In the world of intellect and emotion things hang together. A low plane of
+intellect will produce low impulses. The more we know the greater our
+control of the different sense organs. Nothing can happen without a
+corresponding cause behind it.
+
+The hysteria so common at great political conventions is caused by the
+exceedingly limited intelligence of the managers and directors who labor
+under the illusion that blind impulse is tantamount to vision. In other
+words, where the critical faculties are not developed anything can happen.
+And it is not difficult to predict that when political conventions are
+swayed by hysterical temperaments the authority at the White House will
+have all he can do to steer the Ship of State through the troubled waters
+of impulse and confusion.
+
+There is a will to power that is blind. There is another will to power
+that brings the higher emotions to bear on the lower impulses, controls
+and directs the organs of sense.
+
+The people who elect a President are the ones who will influence his
+actions. And when we talk about a President being a good man for business
+we are compelled to seek for the reason behind the statement.
+
+If finance lands a President at the White House, women, children, teachers
+and philosophers must shift for themselves, since the supreme test lies in
+function, and not in manners, words and looks. And finance means finesse.
+
+Do not expect great innovations at the Capitol until a strong woman takes
+her seat at the White House; and by this I do not mean one of Barnum's
+bearded ladies.
+
+Conservatism is a good thing when it is coupled with vision and judgment,
+but bear in mind that monotony and mediocrity start in the same groove,
+run at the same pace and arrive at the same grave.
+
+
+
+
+BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
+
+
+There is but one mark of patriotism and that is vigilance and enthusiasm.
+The cause of your trouble is the sincerity with which your foes think and
+act and the lukewarm sentiment shown by Americans. The reason is to be
+found in the comfort and luxury of the present day compared with the
+pioneer sacrifices of your fathers and grandfathers. Your opponents are
+vindictive as well as vigilant. They mean what they say and do what they
+will. They are working as individuals, as well as in groups and parties,
+but Americans who inherited the land with liberty are exchanging both for
+the license of the maw.
+
+When school teachers and farm hands are permitted to leave the country for
+the city, the end is not so far off as your sophisticated solons of the
+State Capitols would lead you to suppose.
+
+I once stated that three movings equal one fire, and I can say now that
+the lack of teachers and farm hands has resulted in a damage equal to one
+revolution. No calamity comes and goes single handed. The world, the flesh
+and the devil are a triumvirate bound together by ties of consanguinity.
+Your school teachers are passing over to the world, your farm laborers to
+the flesh, and your ministers to the devil.
+
+You are browsing on the stubble. One delinquency involves another, and
+eventually the monetary capital of the nation may be reduced to that of
+France. The nation will awake one day to the disillusioning fact that
+peace and progress cannot be gauged by commercial prosperity alone. For
+without food what avails your steel, your oil and your gold?
+
+If you could witness the mortification poor Andrew Carnegie is now
+undergoing because of his lack of vision, you would have a lesson not soon
+forgotten. He built libraries but furnished no books to fill them. It was
+like building houses without windows. When leading business men commit
+such folly what can you expect of the nation at large?
+
+The three things most needed by the people are food, raiment and shelter.
+The next three are instruction, religion and discipline. Liberty is a
+privilege; it comes after all the others. The individual has no rights
+inimical to those of the collective conscience.
+
+Until you learn this fundamental maxim, all your knowledge will prove but
+a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
+
+The nations are rattling over the cobble stones of bankruptcy on a
+buckboard of compromise, on the high road to revolution.
+
+
+
+
+JOHN MARSHALL
+
+(The Expounder of the Constitution)
+
+Recorded October, 1920
+
+
+Some recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States are, more
+than any other factor, calculated to develop and foster an element of
+national unrest. Its deliberations are beyond the intelligence of many and
+above the interests of the majority. Its psychology is that of a divorce
+between capital and labor. Its rulings remind me of what transpired in
+England early in the nineteenth century.
+
+Many who were not socialists are beginning to turn from the older order,
+imbued with the feeling that nothing could happen in the future worse for
+the country at large than the conditions that are being endured in the
+present.
+
+A revolution arrives after a series of connected events which exhausts the
+patience of the public, and events are moving with intensity as well as
+rapidity.
+
+
+
+
+DANIEL WEBSTER
+
+
+You will search the pages of history in vain without finding a parallel to
+present conditions.
+
+The war gave Bohemia her freedom; at the same time it licensed a bohemian
+poet to keep Italy stewing in her own juice, a bohemian journalist from
+New York to direct affairs in Moscow, and a bohemian socialist from
+Switzerland to rule over Russia.
+
+Added to this a fashionable ladies' pianist has tried his hand, or should
+I say fingers, in the science of unfurling the sails of Poland's new Ship
+of State, while shop-keepers direct affairs in Germany and pusilanimous
+politicians keep the people of America in a state of tepid trepidation and
+flatulent turmoil. Can you wonder that the country is being hypnotized by
+the sight of so many cantankerous cataleptics?
+
+Macbeth declared he had waded in so far that returning would be as
+perilous as going on. Nothing will move them until they are swamped by
+the high tide of reaction and flung as flotsam on the rocks of a stormy
+opportunism.
+
+A new Damocles has a sword suspended over the National Capitol, and
+liberty hangs to the hinges of the Constitution by a hair.
+
+
+
+
+OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
+
+
+While a few people are ready to return to first principles, many are
+giving expressions to Garden of Eden proclivities. But instead of the old
+Eve, you have the new Amazon; instead of the old serpent, copperheads in
+Congress; instead of the old Adam, fresh brands of bluebeards.
+
+Agreeable to the apple of the new Adam's eye and the fruitarian diet of
+the new Eden, some ladies have adopted the fig-leaf standard. But let that
+pass for the moment, always bearing in mind that he who loses his sense of
+humor loses his equilibrium.
+
+Millions of people are dancing their legs off to keep their heads on.
+
+Providence is wiser than the moralists.
+
+There was a way out of the trenches and there is a way out of the
+pessimism developed by the dying dispensation. It is not so much a
+question of keeping your powder dry as it is of keeping your wits from
+congealing.
+
+Beware of nebulous notions and theories. Uncanny kinks lead to calamitous
+brain storms. A stitch in the side saves nine--kicks behind the solar
+plexus.
+
+
+
+
+BENJAMIN WADE
+
+(Late Governor of Ohio--U. S. Senator)
+
+
+Viewed in the light that shines on the White House, there is no difference
+between a man from Ohio and a gentleman from Indiana.
+
+Men from the pumpkin pie districts think and feel alike, judging world
+politics by the yard-stick method that prevailed in their villages when
+they were young men. They are not always aware that political ruts cause
+social ructions.
+
+The all-wool-and-a-yard-wide politician was home-spun and honestly
+patriotic, but what you need is a home-spun thinker whose vision has got
+beyond the yard-stick measure and can take in the whole world.
+
+An old-school president, at this juncture, will have little more authority
+than a Congo king would have at a conference of jurists in Paris.
+
+Has anyone taken the trouble to find out just what distinguishes the
+minority from the majority?
+
+While the home-spun politician was eating cookies and buckwheat cakes made
+by his mother in the Middle West, some millions in New York, Chicago,
+Cleveland, and other foreign centers, were partaking of wienerwurst,
+sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and rye bread, and clinking beer glasses,
+according to the custom of Continental Europe.
+
+If we say that a statesman represents Americanism, the question arises
+what kind of Americanism? The Yankee, the Southerner, each had his place
+in the political economy of America from 1776 to the Emancipation
+Proclamation in 1863, and even up to the Cleveland Administration, after
+which conditions began to change with startling rapidity, when the
+children born of foreign parents were beginning to come of age and the
+European ferment began to leaven the lumps of sectional dough.
+
+The man who occupies the White House in 1921 should take Time by the
+forelock and the profiteer with the padlock, know how to translate "Es
+ist verboten" into Russian, and say, "Get thee behind me, Satan," in
+Esperanto.
+
+If honesty, alone, is the best and only policy, our country would be safe,
+but honesty is only one of the qualities necessary in these days to carry
+a President through the mazes of a complex administration. Honesty does
+not always imply clear vision or even ordinary common sense. The faculties
+of diplomatic tact and political judgment are infinitely more important,
+and experience still more so.
+
+In America the roles enacted by professional politicians remind one of a
+masquerade where everyone is trying to penetrate behind the masks and
+guessing is the rule. If in this heterogeneous ball-room you slap your
+partner on the back, you may elicit a grunt from a grouchy bolshevik or a
+groan from a disgruntled "bohemian."
+
+And yet Congress enacts laws for Americans who understand no dialect but
+their own and who have to engage interpreters when they visit Paris. How
+many wealthy Americans realize that these United States have outgrown the
+cookie era, the buckwheat pancake era, the corn cob era, the wooden nutmeg
+era, and arrived at the root-hog-or-die era?
+
+Young America today no more resembles the young America of thirty years
+ago than a butterfly resembles a caterpillar. Young men and women are
+sixty per cent cosmopolitan and forty per cent rebel.
+
+During the next five years the number of young people who will insist on
+thinking for themselves will increase two-fold, because in that time many
+thousands of children born of foreign parents in America will have become
+mature enough to have fixed upon some sort of ideal.
+
+Congress will realize the situation when it is too late for regrets to be
+of any service. Which calls to mind a story apropos of this pressing
+subject: A landlady, having no means of obtaining meat for her boarders,
+made a stew out of a litter of kittens. The truth became known in a day or
+two. One of the boarders said the very thought made her sick, to which the
+landlady replied: "Feeling sick won't do no good; them kittens has all
+been digested."
+
+
+
+
+DON PIATT
+
+(Late Editor of "The Capital," Washington, D. C.)
+
+
+Where are the debaters whose rapier tongues ripped up the rag dolls of
+Congress and kept the floor of the House supplied with fresh saw-dust,
+whose fantastic fencing and heart-piercing thrusts were the delight of the
+gallery and the terror of fire eaters. Gone, gone where the woodbine
+twineth. What went they out for to see? A reed shaken by the wind? There
+is a difference in reeds. Tom Reed of Maine shook the House, but the House
+never shook him. What were his favorite drinks? There was plenty to choose
+from in the Washington of his day. But note the difference between the wit
+of the Maine Reed and that of the Missouri Reed.
+
+On the other hand, where did Bryan get the "cross of gold" inspiration in
+the old days? Did he do it on tannic acid released from tea leaves? Who
+will ever know? One thing is certain--he never again rose to the same
+level.
+
+Is our planet revolving toward a second edition of puritanism? Probably.
+The esprit de corps that animated the body politic begins to resemble a
+corpse with the esprit evaporated.
+
+The human mind needs moments of exaltation as well as relaxation.
+Brilliant results are not produced by lukewarm sentiments expressed in a
+voice that lacks enthusiasm.
+
+Washington is now a resort for celluloid cynics and a refuge for asbestos
+patriots whose marmorian snobbery makes me think of the ruins of temples
+abandoned by the gods and forgotten by man.
+
+The great blunder of the prohibitionists was made when they condemned beer
+and light wine. Nature abhors abruptness. Progress is not made by sudden
+jerks and violent laws passed in a hurry.
+
+If a few persons living in an obscure village in Ohio can bring about a
+movement like prohibition, the same influence can bring about a return of
+the old Connecticut blue laws.
+
+Violent actions are followed by violent reactions. From this there is no
+escape.
+
+The fundamental objection to prohibition, as it stands, lies in the cold
+fact that provincialism, no matter how sincere, can never compete with
+international common sense and cosmopolitan culture.
+
+Village residents are ignorant of the laws that govern society in the most
+intelligent centers of the world. What will be the result in the long run?
+Antagonism between the people of the cities and the people of the country.
+
+When they prohibit tobacco, a war of cuss words will be followed by a
+battle of cuspidors, and the very crows will cuss the crocuses.
+
+
+
+
+BENJAMIN DISRAELI
+
+
+Some Members of Parliament have lost their reason, the majority have lost
+their wits, all are without vision.
+
+Lloyd George presents the curious spectacle of a man of the people who
+observes them through the glasses of a Welsh Calvinist. He is a democrat
+with the demeanor of a lord, a radical who has fallen between the two
+stools of the middle-class and the landed aristocracy. Nonconformist
+sentimentality, on one hand, and titled wealth on the other, have blinded
+him to the imperative needs of the time and the dangers that confront the
+Empire.
+
+The English people of the past twenty years have suffered as much from
+misgovernment as the Germans and the Russians, but they cannot stop the
+present stream of progress by clatter in the House and appeals to
+patriotism.
+
+For years England has been saddled with cabinets composed of professional
+humorists and hum-drum moralists.
+
+Augustine Birrell was a diluted edition of Sydney Smith, and Bonar Law
+should have been a professor of theology in a Presbyterian seminary. Sir
+Edward Carson played the role of an unfrocked priest in the service of
+demiurgos. Earl Curzon is a political derelict whose presence in the
+Council Chamber prevents unity and impedes progress.
+
+History will record their acts as the most amazing in the annals of Great
+Britain. I see nothing for the old order but unconditional surrender. The
+hand-writing on the wall was visible in 1909, but no preparation was made
+for the change which is now sweeping the country with cyclonic force.
+
+We, from our side, can do no more than utter some words of warning for the
+few who have ears to hear, the tidal wave of change not being confined to
+particular countries or regions.
+
+I, too, when Prime Minister, was blind to the reality, having been born
+and reared in an atmosphere as foreign to that of the masses as the
+atmosphere of the Winter Palace was foreign to the peasants of Russia.
+
+We staggered under the load of a wealthy and titled upper class. They
+consumed the people's time and imposed infinite misery on some millions of
+toilers, and for these things we rewarded the men at the top with fresh
+titles.
+
+As you know, I led the Conservative Party in England for many years, but
+that Party was, and still is, avid for power.
+
+The Liberal Party was made up of men using Nonconformity as an instrument
+of advancement. They placed opportunity above the truth, position above
+principle, power above progress. We were all intellectual automatons, set
+in motion by springs wound up by leaders who were themselves automatons.
+
+England goes by machinery. Her very existence is mechanical. Now, when a
+loose screw stops the evolution of the wheels, the whole nation stops.
+
+In what way can we be said to excel in probity of conduct the people of
+Ireland? In what way are we superior to Irish politicians? The scandals
+that occurred in London during the war would not have been tolerated in
+Dublin under an Irish Parliament. And still England is being led by a
+Welsh Calvinist, opposed by a Scottish humorist who says his prayers,
+backed by Anglican agnostics and middle-class dissenters overwhelmed with
+fear.
+
+We always imitate the French, but while we accepted Voltairianism in
+principle, the French had the courage to put it into practice.
+
+While the French became practical pagans in 1789, we became practical
+hypocrites.
+
+It is this element that has created the moral indifference of the Anglican
+Church and the intellectual apathy of the so-called Nonconformist
+conscience. This is why there is no stability behind the old phraseology,
+the old ceremonials, the old confessions of faith--now so many catch-words
+which the people abhor. And this is why the working men find it so easy to
+send their leaders to Parliament. For the same reason Russian radicalism
+is certain of a warm welcome on English soil.
+
+It is true that this hypocrisy is subconscious, having had its origin
+during the French Revolution. This renders it far more dangerous because
+political leaders in England today are mentally incompetent to realize the
+danger that lies before them.
+
+We cannot reason with people whose vision is dulled by four generations of
+moral apathy. Hence they will continue to "kick against the pricks" to the
+bitter end. There will be strife added to strife, confusion to confusion,
+and they, themselves, will invite the drastic events which must follow so
+much stubborn resistance to the demands of common justice and the progress
+of civilization.
+
+
+
+
+PRINCE BISMARCK
+
+Recorded November 3d, 1920
+
+
+When I imposed an indemnity of five billion francs on the French people in
+1870 we knew that the money could and would be paid. But there is no
+parallel between Germany in 1920 and France in 1870. The Reparations
+Commission has only succeeded in proving its incompetence. The German
+delegates have shown that the Allied war claims amount to more than five
+hundred billion marks (gold), which is nearly four thousand billions at
+the present rate of exchange.
+
+This fantastic sum, one hundred times more than France paid to Germany in
+1870, is expected of a country on the verge of revolution and chaos. I
+charge this Commission with incompetence, extravagance, luxurious living,
+and claims at once absurd and ridiculous.
+
+You punish some of the most dangerous criminals by indeterminate
+sentences, which frequently end after a year's imprisonment, but you
+expect to hold the German people in financial bondage for more than a
+generation to come because of the criminal blunders of less than a hundred
+individuals.
+
+I was blinded by material factors at the time of my seeming triumphs but
+now I can see some of the things which will never come to pass. The French
+and the English are repeating some of the blunders I made fifty years ago.
+They are counting on conditions which will never exist, like a bird
+sitting on a nest of mixed eggs from which the cuckoo will eventually oust
+all the other birds.
+
+French people are under the illusion that Russia will meet the obligations
+undertaken by the late Czar. To expect such a thing shows the child-like
+illusions under which French fanatics are living. They are still wrapped
+in the swaddling clothes of politics.
+
+We committed crimes that have brought civilization to the brink of chaos,
+but we are not capable of such naivete.
+
+The logic of a Frenchman is no better than the mysticism of a Russian or
+the sentimentality of an Englishman. French people learned nothing from
+the blunders of Napoleon III and the debacle of Sedan. And the reason?
+They have remained provincial while the Germans imitated the commercial
+cosmopolitanism of the English.
+
+Advice is the cheapest of all things. Nevertheless, I advise your
+statesmen to place no reliance on sentimental contracts written on paper
+foredoomed to become "scraps."
+
+I do not hesitate to declare that no agreement signed since 1913 is worth
+more than the seals. In Europe, leaders and rulers have passed from an
+international game of chess to a national gamble with marked cards.
+
+You have now to deal with an element which did not exist in my time. This
+element embraces all factions of the new radicalism, no matter in what
+country or under what leader. Some of these elements may unite, but they
+are not going to change. How, then, can you undertake to insure the future
+by contracts signed and sealed by elderly gentlemen with good intentions
+and poor judgment?
+
+The war gave the new factions the long wished-for opportunity. They seized
+it in Russia, in Germany, in Poland, in Britain, and other countries. But
+the opportunities created by the war are one thing, the opportunities of
+tomorrow will be different, and it is this contingency for which your
+leaders are not prepared. You will have to select men of vision who will
+judge events as they arrive, without regard to the distant future, which
+belongs to no man.
+
+One of my greatest mistakes was in separating Protestant Prussia from the
+interests of the Catholics of South Germany.
+
+The new radicalism is opposed to some things which are irrevocably linked
+with religious doctrine.
+
+Without the Catholic Church all Europe would be in the throes of the
+Commune. The principal cause of our disintegration was that we sanctioned
+Protestant flirtation with modern materialism.
+
+France is beginning to see that even a weak monarchy is better than a
+radical government without a God.
+
+You may expect a return of the monarchy in more than one country.
+Agnostics and Protestants, moved by fear on one side, and disgust on the
+other, will unite for a restoration as their last hope. There will be a
+repetition of historic events.
+
+Bonaparte was ushered in by the French Revolution, and his advent was
+followed by three kings and one emperor.
+
+The majority treat their rulers as children treat their toys: when the
+novelty wears off a change is demanded.
+
+Political psychology and religious sentiment are not the same thing.
+Nevertheless, they must be considered together. The Germans are now
+awaiting the hour when the inevitable change will be demanded. Events take
+crowns from some heads and place them on others. If the ex-Kaiser ever
+occupies the throne again a modern Nero will fiddle amidst the ruins of
+German imperialism, for you know he meddled with fiddle strings as well as
+with political wires.
+
+You think it strange? The impossible is always happening. Never lose sight
+of the fact that an organized minority is more formidable than a
+disorganized majority. Three men brought about the coup d'etat that placed
+the outcast Louis Napoleon on the throne, one man started the Russian
+Revolution, I planned the overthrow of the Second Empire with the aid of
+Count von Moltke. The majority put their trust in numbers, but the bigger
+a thing grows the nearer it is to disintegration. An autocratic minority
+ruled in Germany, an automatic majority rules in France and England. Two
+men started the present rule in Moscow, both of them from the outside.
+
+"God has been merciful to us," said Cavour, in the Italian Senate, "He has
+made Spain one degree lower than Italy." God has been merciful to Germany,
+He has made Russian communism more abhorrent than German socialism.
+
+Nothing will be left undone by the French government to secure permanent
+occupation of the coal district of the Rhine.
+
+Conditions will not remain long as they are. They are preparing decisive
+coups in Bavaria, Hanover, Austria and Hungary. New combinations will
+amaze your statesmen and diplomats, who are ignorant of the fact that
+changes and upheavals operate in cycles of three and seven. What they call
+chance is the working of law. Spiritual forces operate through the
+physical, and nature will take a hand in the reactions in Petrograd and
+Moscow. Cold, hunger and starvation will dissipate the hopes of the ruling
+minority. Untold numbers will be sacrificed.
+
+During the French Revolution philosophers and thinkers were decapitated.
+In Russia such men are killed by hunger, the difference being one of
+method.
+
+Such conditions will be repeated in different countries until people learn
+that the spiritual cannot be separated from the material without pain and
+slaughter.
+
+After all the long-winded conferences and shorthand reports nothing is
+left but a confusion of blots on the tissue paper of time.
+
+I may say more on another occasion.
+
+
+
+
+HENRY WARD BEECHER
+
+
+The happy-go-lucky humor of the day is no match for the cool calculation
+of European communists. English and American humorists do for the public
+what the court jester once did for blasé kings.
+
+In the sardonic temper of the Russian revolutionist, I see a return of the
+French temper of 1793.
+
+Most of the sermons and speeches of the time are chameleon in character
+and tepid in feeling. English humorists developed a flagrant cynicism,
+spotted with a varioloid paradox, while French writers have halted between
+the isolation of the hospital and the insularity of the home.
+
+The war brought Anatole France to his senses, the last of the Gallic wits,
+who possessed a greater charm than Voltaire without attaining his
+universal prestige. Prince Bismarck declares that the French have learned
+nothing since their defeat at Sedan. Yet French writers have learned more
+from the great war than the writers of any other country.
+
+English humor is meant to entertain a public lost in the cynical
+buffooneries of materialism; American humor is meant to amuse a public
+lost in the mazes of extravagant pleasures and provincial inanities.
+
+English humor has a certain seal; American humor a certain mark--the
+difference between sealing wax and a postage stamp. Both aim to fill the
+ghastly gap left by the doctrine of evolution since it caught the fancy of
+agnostic freebooters in 1870--forerunners of something grimmer than the
+Soviet symbols of a return of puritanism even now creeping into view as
+ivy creeps up the water spouts.
+
+Laughter will vanish, since there will be nothing left to laugh at.
+Dancing will cease, for curfew will ring at nine and people will begin
+work at five.
+
+Remember that all the great modern movements had an obscure origin.
+Spiritualism began in a country farm-house, Christian Science developed
+out of mediumship, prohibition was started in a village, woman's suffrage
+was started by a Quakeress, Theosophy began at a farm-house in Vermont,
+the Salvation Army was started by a group of obscure persons.
+
+The new puritanism will start by a committee of persons unknown to the
+public, chosen from the ranks of the Methodists, Baptists and
+Presbyterians. Grim determinists, they will ignore satire, sarcasm and
+irony, ignore party politics, ignore the opposition of luke-warm
+Christians, form committees, in which they will be aided by drastic
+reactions during the period of readjustment.
+
+Centers will soon be formed in Atlanta, Nashville, Cleveland, Boston,
+Hartford, Philadelphia and Washington, D. C.
+
+What is causing so much crime? Not one, but many elements of decadence,
+all operating together, among which I can name rag, jazz, high balls,
+cabarets, free verse, neurotic art, sentimental optimism, cheap notions of
+progress, neutral sermons, automobilism, lack of child discipline, absence
+of fear among people under the age of forty--evils which you may apply to
+all English-speaking countries.
+
+The licence of the cities dominates country life and country thought. The
+city minority rules the majority in the country, and it is in the country
+that the reaction will begin.
+
+
+
+
+JOHN MARSHALL
+
+(Second Message)
+
+
+Many of the smaller nations, instead of being content with their liberty,
+have thrown it away for the licence that always goes with land grabbing.
+For a nation is nothing more than an individual with a certain amount of
+collective ambition.
+
+Much of the work of the League of Nations will have to be undone. But it
+will not be undone by any League. The nations will settle differences in
+accordance with the law that permits the more powerful to wield control
+commensurate with their geographical and intellectual importance.
+
+All people have rights which ought to be respected, but some have
+privileges as well as rights, and the privileged will hold the upper hand
+as long as intelligence takes precedence of illiteracy, energy dominates
+over lethargy, and the power of organized numbers rules over minorities.
+
+Your statesmen and your mediators will have to learn the distinction
+between rights and privileges. All are supposed to possess common rights
+under the common law, but it is wisdom, supported by poise and power, that
+constitutes privilege. David and Solomon were privleged. So were Alfred
+the Great, Washington and Lincoln.
+
+A nation is temperamental like an individual. The temperament may be
+vascillating or it may be stolid; it may be logical or it may be
+commercial; or a combination of the Saxon and the Celt.
+
+The nations that will hold the balance of power in the future will be the
+ones with the most will and poise, backed by number. Riches, alone, will
+not save. Wealth did not save Germany from disaster, nor did it help
+Nopoleon III to ward off the Prussian invasion in 1870. Wealth invites
+invasion and conquest. This is why England and America will now be the
+principal target for the ambitious and the discontented. This is why Japan
+seeks a firm foothold in China, and the Russians an entrance to India
+through Persia.
+
+Without the prospects of loot there would be no war. When ambition and
+glory lure a nation on, the desire for loot supplies the motor force. When
+hunger forces a people to invade a nation, loot becomes a necessity.
+
+What the wealthy of every nation refuse to understand, or even to
+consider, is that material force engenders vanity, individualism, rivalry
+and envy. All manifestations of force contain an element of
+disintegration. The type of a nation will always represent the policy and
+the trend of the nation.
+
+The supreme blunder of the Peace Conference was made when the delegates,
+with Mr. Wilson at their head, refused to face the fact that no nation can
+rise above the ideals and idiosyncrasies of the national temperament, and
+that sudden liberation from restraint is as dangerous for a country as it
+is for an individual.
+
+There is but one step between liberty and licence, and that step meant
+pandemonium for all classes in Russia. For other peoples it may mean
+political bondage and the total loss of a national spirit. For the Hindoos
+it will mean civil wars between the different native rulers, for China it
+has meant a series of revolutions and counter revolutions which may have
+to be suppressed by the drastic hand of a Japanese Bonaparte.
+
+The League Conference at Versailles took no account of the working of
+natural law. Sentimentality was the key-note of Mr. Wilson's idealism, and
+commercial expansion the dominant idea of his opponents.
+
+As for religion exerting any fundamental influence for peace and right
+thinking, it caused Protestants to fight Protestants and Catholics to
+fight Catholics, while German and Austrian cardinals did all in their
+power to aid in the invasion and conquest of Belgium and France, on one
+hand, and Italy, the stronghold of the Papal See, on the other; and all
+this in the face of the statement of the Kaiser that Catholicism must be
+destroyed. Nothing like it has been known since the dawn of Christianity.
+
+The only apparent reason for the quiescent attitude of some of the smaller
+nations is that they are without the material means of waging war on their
+neighbors.
+
+Just as long as politicians are impelled by self-interest there will be
+found nations that will have to use force for the suppression of licence
+and the curtailment of liberty. In every country the people are getting
+what their thoughts and deeds create for them.
+
+
+
+
+ABRAHAM LINCOLN
+
+
+Events come and go in cycles--there is a beginning, a middle and an end.
+The League of Nations had a beginning and it will have an end. But what
+kind of an end? Will it be one of victory or one of ignominy?
+
+The two fatal blunders of the Kaiser and his cohorts consisted in the
+delusion that England could not raise, equip and transport a body of
+troops sufficient to offer adequate resistance to the invaders of France
+in conjunction with the French and Belgian armies, and that America could
+not or would not join the European Allies.
+
+At the present juncture the inimical forces, both in continental Europe
+and in America, are repeating the old blunders under fresh conditions.
+
+History is a repetition of the old tunes with new variations. Just now the
+fireworks of sophistry and rhetoric drown out the familiar tune and what
+is heard is the buzz-saw of political machinery.
+
+Hyenas are gnawing the bones left by the lion rampant of Czardom; and
+Siberia, the remnant, is being consumed by jackals from Japan. It remains
+to be seen how long voters with American pedigrees will be influenced by
+demagogues who would induce them to part with their birthright for a mess
+of pottage burnt on the bottom.
+
+The longer you wink at anarchy in Europe the greater will be the menace of
+social chaos at home. The worship of shibboleths cannot be kept up beyond
+a point where the majority grow tired of hocus-pocus politics and
+academical agnosticism.
+
+There should be harmony of interests in dealing with the people of Mexico,
+from whom you have much to learn in many ways.
+
+The Obregon Government should be recognized at Washington and immediate
+steps taken to insure cordial relations between the two countries.
+
+The City of Mexico is a capital with a great future.
+
+You are about to pass through a period of great confusion. Warnings have
+been given but not heeded. Unless you cease to theorize, and propagate a
+spirit of justice and judgment, the near future will develop something
+more than storms in the blue china teapots of diplomacy.
+
+
+
+
+ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
+
+
+Washington needs a breaker of images.
+
+The pedestrian sauntering down Pennsylvania Avenue cannot but note the
+hefty Hancock on horseback, looking as if he had just left a meeting of
+ward politicians, and, in another part of the city, McClellan, the Beau
+Brummel of the Civil War, on a charger, sniffing the smoke of battle from
+a safe distance, and others whose names are writ in water but whose
+effigies remain in bronze.
+
+To the scrap heap with these, and in their places erect memorials for the
+women, who did as much for America as Joan of Arc did for France, the
+intrepid pioneers of their race, the prophetic patriots of the nineteenth
+century--Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony.
+
+It would take a Lincoln Memorial to depict their serenity, a National
+Capitol to symbolize their nobility, a Washington Monument to typify the
+towering height of their achievement and the scope and clarity of their
+vision.
+
+
+
+
+STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS
+
+
+A war between America and England would fill your homes with desolation
+and bring ruin to the whole country. Do your sins of omission merit such a
+punishment? I am here to tell you what to expect if such a hurricane of
+disaster ever sweeps the two countries.
+
+Millions of people are under the impression that the United States can act
+independently of the conditions prevailing in the other great nations.
+This suggestion, coming, as it did, from a professional joker in England,
+has met with eager response from revolutionary emissaries now in your
+midst, supported by political fillibusters who are masking the truth.
+
+If England ever starts such a war she will lose India. Her direction of
+the reins of civilization in many quarters of the world would cease on the
+day hostilities began. But I am speaking for America.
+
+A war with England would Russianize the United States within three months.
+Even if the navy could keep the enemy at a safe distance the destructive
+forces at home would loot the principal cities and spread terror from
+ocean to ocean.
+
+The first to lose in such an upheaval would be the wealthy propagandists
+of disorder and violence, who, living in security now, would be hurled
+with destructive force against the weapons of their own creation.
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL BENJAMIN H. GRIERSON
+
+Late Commander of the Military Department of Southern California, Arizona
+and New Mexico
+
+
+In 1914 western civilization was threatened by a military autocracy
+centralized at Berlin. Europe is now threatened by a communistic tyranny
+centralized at Moscow and by an autocratic aristocracy centered in Japan,
+anti-Christian, anti-democratic, anti-American. You may call it fate or
+destiny, it matters not so long as you know what the signs and portents
+are.
+
+We can see what is going on in the navy yards of the Nipponese Empire. We
+have noted the strenuous efforts put forth in naval preparations there.
+
+A Japanese Bonaparte will soon dominate China and prevent Christian
+propaganda throughout Asia. I could give you the dates fixed for certain
+maneuvers and events in connection with Japanese ambitions relating to
+America, but they could change the dates. Suffice it to say they are
+making ready as fast as possible, much faster than many in this country
+could be made to believe. When the decisive moment arrives for action it
+will come suddenly, like the invasion of Belgium by the Germans.
+
+Here are some of their expectations:--
+
+The invasion of the coast of Mexico and a coalition of Japanese forces
+with some military faction in Mexico likely to be of practical aid, the
+bombing of American cities on the Pacific Coast from the air, virtual
+cessation of communication between certain sections east of the Rocky
+Mountains and California, brought about not so much by physical means as
+by revolutionary influences. They are counting on a Soviet revolution east
+of the Rockies while they are gaining a foothold in California.
+
+One of their first attempts would be to bomb the railway passes in the
+Cascades and the Sierra Nevadas.
+
+General Grant has warned you in regard to the Panama Canal and other
+points that need immediate attention. Millions would be alarmed if they
+could realize how much the Government at Washington resembles the British
+Government just before the German descent into Belgium. Are they waiting
+until they can spy the enemy through field glasses?
+
+I could give a map of the plans of approach of the Japanese navy, intended
+to operate in separate units, but it would do no good. They are ready to
+change their tactics at any time, and have done so more than once.
+
+Let me add that the bellicose attitude of the war party in Japan is such
+that a war between England and America would be hailed as a symbol of
+their divine destiny.
+
+Do not be surprised when I say that they proclaim the end of Christian
+civilization was reached when the Anglo-Saxons took possession of the
+Pacific Coast.
+
+In the Far East, British domination attained its zenith in India; in
+America, Anglo-Saxon influence attained its limit in California. The
+possession of the Pacific Coast of North America is, therefore, the limit
+for the dominant white race. The tocsin has sounded for a Japanese avatar
+who will unify the political, commercial and religious forces of Japan and
+China, give the coup de grace to a tottering civilization and dominate the
+world. So do they reason and preach.
+
+
+
+
+ALEXANDER HAMILTON
+
+
+What do the clouds on the social horizon predict? Is Nature a book of
+fate? If so, is it sealed or open? Whoever understands the political
+actions of the past can foresee the reactions of the future.
+
+Human nature is always the same.
+
+The two things brought to the surface by great upheavals are extreme
+virtues and extreme vices. The virtue of self sacrifice, on the one hand,
+the vice of self interest on the other. Vice is flexible, cunning,
+adaptable.
+
+You are living at a time when profiteers amaze by their cynical audacity,
+but profiteers have always existed. Before the war the nobles of Russia
+and Germany were profiteers in landed privileges and governmental
+perquisites. The tillers of the soil were free in name, serfs in practice.
+In England two or three hundred lords and peers possess the land. In
+America food profiteering began during the Civil War. This national vice
+has never been attacked at the roots.
+
+Your age is characterized by a high level of predatory ability and a low
+level of prophetic visibility.
+
+The old hackneyed phrase, "This is a free country," has been applied in
+varying degrees according to the caprice of the individual with the most
+aggressive will.
+
+New words, definitions, excuses, have been invented to meet the new
+conditions, but of all the words yet brought into use, "camouflage" is the
+only one that covers the cynical effrontery of predatory hypocrisy. It is
+a vocable of universal utility. It applies to the cock-pits of commerce as
+well as to the arena of bull and bear politics.
+
+It depicts a Hindoo patience in the pulpit and a Hoodoo palsy in the pews.
+
+The word "democracy" itself is the stripes painted on the sides of the old
+Ship of State in her zig-zag course to elude the torpedoes of the
+proletarian submarines.
+
+A capitalistic profiteer is a high brow optimist who lives by the sweat of
+the low brow pessimist. The stretching process will cease suddenly like
+the snapping of a rubber string stretched beyond the limit.
+
+The masses without a voice always find articulation in the unlooked-for
+man, the unlooked-for group.
+
+The people without a mouthpiece are a mob, and no mob can run itself for
+more than a few days. It is the initiated who lead, and leadership
+requires time, patience, judgment.
+
+In the world of genius there are no upstarts.
+
+The great leader never rises suddenly. Bonaparte was a military graduate,
+Grant was a product of West Point, Lincoln was thirty years preparing for
+the Presidency, Lenine spent twenty years in the study of economics. All
+countries have the same experience.
+
+Voltaire endowed the middle classes of France with a voice, united the
+disaffected of all classes, and peppered their indignation with pungent
+epigrams. He created an intellectual garden for lovers of liberty, and
+from the realm of the mind flung the thorns of ridicule in the face of
+titled imbeciles and crowned the heads of scholars with laurel.
+
+The people of France were washed by Louis XIV, wrung by Louis XV, and
+dried in the back yard of tyrannical economics by Louis XVI.
+
+But it was the orators and pamphleteers who ironed out the frills and
+furbelows of the old order.
+
+Statistical facts may convince but they do not compel. Who knows how the
+French Revolution would have ended had Mirabeau, orator of the great and
+solemn days, survived to put into action the idealism of Rousseau?
+Intellect alone never passes the halfway house. When intellect, reason and
+emotion are fused in one, the summit of achievement is attained.
+
+
+
+
+PHILLIPS BROOKS
+
+
+The time for discipline is approaching. Happy are those who, under Divine
+direction, consent to be led, for, in the words of Quintilian:--Nulla
+poena est nisi invito, or as Seneca expressed it, Fata volentum ducunt,
+involentem trahunt,--those who refuse will be dragged.
+
+You must in some manner experience the ordeals common to other peoples,
+and you have seen from a distance what has overtaken many cities and
+nations, the inhabitants of which felt themselves as fixed as the rocks in
+the soil. Yet, all that is happening is in harmony with Divine law. You
+will find it in Isaiah and Jeremiah. The repetition is inevitable except
+for those who possess vision.
+
+The time for appeals is past.
+
+"The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth, the
+haughty people of the world do languish."
+
+"When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled, and when thou
+shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously
+with thee."
+
+Are the people astonished? Let them marvel at their own willfulness.
+
+"The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not
+have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into
+the gates of Jerusalem."
+
+Titus, with his army, destroyed the Holy City. The enemy entered the gates
+from without but your adversaries have long been entrenched within.
+
+Mammon is heavily laden and will fall from the top. Material power is
+volatile.
+
+In the day of trial, the retainer and the hireling will seek a refuge,
+every man for himself. They will melt like the wax image before the heat
+of the furnace. On that day humility will be as a precious gift and
+poverty as a peace offering.
+
+Blessed is he who uses the spade and the hoe, for by the sweat of his brow
+he shall eat the bread of security.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+<p class="center"><span class="giant">PSYCHO-PHONE<br />MESSAGES</span></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">RECORDED BY</span><br /><span class="huge">FRANCIS GRIERSON</span></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="note">Spiritual Messages from the late General U. S. Grant, on Adequate Preparation in America; Thomas Jefferson,
+on the Future of American Democracy; Benjamin Disraeli, on English and Irish Affairs; Prince Bismarck, on the Indemnities;
+John Marshall, on the Psychology of the Supreme Court of the United States; Alexander Hamilton, on the Forces that Precede
+Revolution; Abraham Lincoln, on the Future of Mexico; Robert Ingersoll, on Our Great Women; Henry Ward Beecher, on the New
+Puritanism; Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, on President Harding; General B. H. Grierson, on Japan, Mexico and California, etc.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p class="center"><span class="giant">PSYCHO-PHONE<br />MESSAGES</span></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">RECORDED BY</span><br /><span class="huge">FRANCIS GRIERSON</span></p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Published by<br />AUSTIN PUBLISHING COMPANY<br />Los Angeles, California</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p class="center">Copyright, June 1921<br />By B. F. Austin</p>
+
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2>
+
+<p>The word &#8220;psycho-phone&#8221; was first suggested and used by Mr. Francis
+Grierson in a lecture I heard him deliver before the Toronto Theosophical
+Society, August 31st, 1919, a year before Thomas Edison announced his
+intention of devising an instrument which he hopes will serve to establish
+intercourse between our world and the world of spirit.</p>
+
+<p>My own experiences as a student in this sphere of psychic research in
+Europe and America, covering a period of thirty years, convince me that we
+have here a revelation of a new mode of spiritual communication unlike
+anything heretofore given to the world, not only different in quality but
+different in purpose.</p>
+
+<p>From personal knowledge I can state that the recorder of these messages
+has not acted on ideas advanced by anyone living on our plane.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>Looking back over the past two decades, I am led to believe that Mr.
+Grierson&#8217;s predictions in &#8220;The Invincible Alliance,&#8221; and in that startling
+poem, &#8220;The Awakening in Westminster Abbey,&#8221; forecasting the war and the
+tragic events in Ireland, were spiritual and psycho-phonic in character.</p>
+
+<p>From 1909 to 1911 Francis Grierson was the acknowledged leading writer on
+&#8220;The New Age,&#8221; of London, which at that time had as contributors, H. G.
+Wells, Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, the two Chestertons, Hillaire
+Belloc&mdash;in one word, all the most prominent writers and advanced thinkers
+in Britain, yet not one of them except Mr. Grierson could see the
+approaching world upheaval.</p>
+
+<p>Early in 1909 he published a series of articles in that weekly depicting
+the coming war, and nothing of so drastic a nature had ever appeared in an
+English publication. In the spring of 1913 these articles were published
+in book form in London and New York under the title of &#8220;The Invincible
+Alliance.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>In the Westminster Abbey composition, published in &#8220;The New Age&#8221; in 1910,
+the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> characteristics of four personalities are plainly manifest&mdash;Coleridge,
+Milton, Shelley and Shakespeare&mdash;and I have not forgotten the sensation
+caused by this great work in London at the time of its appearance.</p>
+
+<p>Having had occasion to study the social and psychic conditions in France,
+Germany, Italy, Austria and England before the great war, and after having
+been an eye witness of scenes unique in the annals of musical inspiration
+in the artistic and literary circles of Europe as well as the most
+intellectual of the royal courts, in which Mr. Grierson was the central
+figure, I now have a better understanding of the work he accomplished and
+its far-reaching import. The more complex the work the longer must be the
+preparation, and we are now confronted with what will appear to many as
+the most interesting phase of Mr. Grierson&#8217;s psychic gifts, for the seer
+who ushered in the new mystical movement by the publication of &#8220;Modern
+Mysticism&#8221; in 1899 is now the recorder of messages which must induce
+thinking and unprejudiced minds to pause and consider such matters in a
+new light, and it is to be hoped that many more<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> messages like these may
+be recorded by the same hand.</p>
+
+<p>As I write, I have before me a unique collection of letters written to Mr.
+Grierson by men and women eminent in philosophy, art, music, literature
+and journalism, in Europe and America. Among the letters that Mr. Grierson
+values the most in this remarkable album are eight from members of the
+French Academy, with Sully Prudhomme, winner of the first Noble Prize,
+heading the list. Which reminds me that I heard him say one evening in
+Paris, after hearing Mr. Grierson&#8217;s music: &#8220;You have placed me on the
+threshold of the other world. There are not words in the French language
+to express what I have felt tonight!&#8221; Up to that moment the famous
+Academician had been known as an avowed agnostic.</p>
+
+<p>Maeterlinck writes that the first Grierson volume (in French) influenced
+him more than any book he had ever read. There are four letters from the
+Belgian mystic.</p>
+
+<p>This album is filled with expressions from the most authoritative minds in
+literature and art, as well as statesmen, soldiers and <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>diplomats, such as
+Jules Simon, the Duc de Broglie, Lord Lytton, British ambassador at Paris;
+Lord Reading, British ambassador at Washington; Field Marshall Lord
+Wolseley, General B. H. Grierson, U.S.A., leading members of the Bonaparte
+family in Paris, Prince Henri of Orleans (son of Louis Philippe), Princess
+Eulalia of Spain, and crowned heads who gave receptions in Mr. Grierson&#8217;s
+honor during the past thirty years. There are letters from distinguished
+Americans, such as Col. Henry Watterson (who wrote two long editorials on
+Mr. Grierson in the Louisville &#8220;Courier Journal&#8221;), Henry Mills Alden,
+editor of &#8220;Harper&#8217;s Monthly,&#8221; Prof. William James, Marion Reedy, Edwin
+Markham, Edith Thomas, Mary Austin, and many leading professors of
+Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin
+and California.</p>
+
+<p>Edwin Bjorkman says, in his &#8220;Voices of Tomorrow&#8221;:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;To Francis Grierson belongs the honor of having first attained to
+prophetic vision of the common goal. In his first volume, published in
+Paris in 1889, he suggested every idea<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> which since then has become
+recognized as essential not only to Bergson and Maeterlinck but to the
+constantly increasing number of writers engaged in making the time
+conscious of its own spirit. As we read essay after essay it is as if we
+beheld the globe of life revolving slowly between us and some unknown
+source of light.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>The following remarks from the London &#8220;Outlook&#8221; seem to me pertinent to
+the subject:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Grierson is an Englishman, for he was born in Cheshire; Scotland may
+justly claim him in that he is a direct descendent of Sir Robert Grierson,
+the famous Laird of Lag, who is the hero of Scott&#8217;s novel, &#8216;The Red
+Gauntlet&#8217;; that America has had a part in the making of him all readers of
+that wonderful book, &#8216;The Valley of Shadows,&#8217; know; France can claim him
+since he began his musical career in Paris and published his first book in
+French; but no special country can claim to have developed his
+genius&mdash;that is cosmopolitan.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>As &#8220;Current Opinion&#8221; says, in a long study: &#8220;He presents a unique
+combination of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> thinker, writer, artist and musician who owes nothing to
+any school or any master or system of training; and his experience is
+without a parallel in the intellectual world of our day.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p class="right">LAWRENCE WALDEMAR TONNER,</p>
+
+<p>245&#189; So. Spring St.<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Los Angeles, California.</span></p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p>
+<h2>FOREWORD</h2>
+
+<p>These messages were begun in September, 1920, and the last was recorded in
+May, 1921. I little dreamed that many of the predictions set forth would
+be verified so soon. For names, in themselves, count for nothing. The
+subliminal mind may assume different names on different occasions. A
+message is of value exactly in proportion to the information imparted.</p>
+
+<p>The first communication from General Grant was recorded September ninth.
+It is peremptory in tone, and contains a warning touching the insecurity
+of the Panama Canal. In November Mr. Harding made a tour of inspection and
+found the fortifications of the Canal inadequate. I then decided on the
+publication of these messages.</p>
+
+<p>They deal with the actual. Take, for example, John Marshall&#8217;s documents,
+which are filled with warnings no reader with intelligence will attempt to
+refute, Disraeli&#8217;s indictment of English statesmanship in recent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> times,
+Lincoln&#8217;s utterances on affairs in Europe and Mexico, General Grant on
+Preparation, Benjamin Franklin on the Privilege of Liberty, Bishop
+Phillips Brooks on the Coming Ordeals, to name but a few.</p>
+
+<p>As a Judge sums up, regardless of who may or may not agree, a decision is
+rendered according to the vision of the one who delivers the message.
+Principle, not Party, is the basis of judgment.</p>
+
+<p>Witness Disraeli&#8217;s remark that the blunders committed by the British
+Parliament would have been impossible in an Irish Parliament in Dublin.</p>
+
+<p>In a series of articles in &#8220;Nash&#8217;s Magazine&#8221; Mr. Basil King suggests that
+&#8220;the means of communication with the plane next above us may be through
+the everlasting doors which the subliminal opens upward. Through these
+doors the mind may go up and out; through these doors the light may come
+in and down.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>In our group of investigators we have had the perseverence essential for
+serious development, and, as in all demonstrations, whether physical or
+psychical, everything <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>depends on conditions, so we have had periods of
+weeks when no message of any kind was received.</p>
+
+<p>A striking feature of these communications is their freedom from restraint
+imposed by popular opinion. They contain neither theories nor appeals.
+Warnings are uttered concerning events and their inevitable reactions.</p>
+
+<p>The psycho-phonic waves, by which the messages are imparted, are as
+definite as those received by wireless methods.</p>
+
+<p class="right">FRANCIS GRIERSON.</p>
+
+<p>Los Angeles, California</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p>
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" summary="table">
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td align="right">PAGE</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Introduction</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_5">5</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Foreword</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Thomas Reed, of Maine, Late Speaker of the House, on the Peace League</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>General U. S. Grant, on Adequate Preparation in America</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>General U. S. Grant (second message)</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Thomas Jefferson, on the Future of American Democracy</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Elizabeth Cady Stanton, on the Future of American Women</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Benjamin Franklin, on the Privilege of Liberty</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>John Marshall, &#8220;The Expounder of the Constitution,&#8221; on the Psychology of the Supreme Court</td><td valign="bottom" align="right"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Daniel Webster, on &#8220;Bohemian&#8221; Statesmen</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Oliver Wendell Holmes, on the New Eden</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span>Benjamin Wade, Late Governor of Ohio, U. S. Senator, on President Harding</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Don Piatt, Late Editor of &#8220;The Capital,&#8221; Washington, D. C., on Prohibition and the Blue Laws</td><td valign="bottom" align="right"><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Benjamin Disraeli, on English and Irish Affairs</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_58">58</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Prince Bismarck, on Germany and the Indemnities</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Henry Ward Beecher, on the New Puritanism</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>John Marshall, on Liberty and the League (second message)</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Abraham Lincoln, on the Future of Mexico</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Robert Ingersoll, on Our Great Women</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Stephen A. Douglass, on War Between England and America</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_83">83</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>General B. H. Grierson, on Japan and California</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Alexander Hamilton, on the Forces that Precede Revolution</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td>Phillips Brooks, on The Coming Ordeals</td><td align="right"><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr></table>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p>
+<h2>Psycho-phone Messages</h2>
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THOMAS B. REED</h2>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">(Late Speaker of the House)</span></p>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">Recorded September seventh, 1920.</span></p>
+
+<p>The formidable imbecility of the Senate rivaled the fantastic irritability
+of the President.</p>
+
+<p>Born with a Utopian temperament, Mr. Wilson has a Herculean passion for
+generalities and a Lilliputian penchant for details.</p>
+
+<p>You scratched the Teutons at Versailles and found a new species of Tartar;
+you scratched the Japanese and found a Pacifist camouflage; you scratched
+the Poles and found a pianist with his hair uncut; you scratched the
+French and found a tiger with his claws unclipped. Your mania for
+scratching other nations will keep your nails manicured without the aid of
+scissors.</p>
+
+<p>Never since the Declaration of Independence and the first peal of the
+Liberty Bell did a chief executive walk up a winding stair<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> into so pretty
+a parlor as when Mr. Wilson, with the naivete of a Princeton president,
+faced that cacophony of sectional jazz bands to witness the cryptic
+hand-writing on the wall at the peace table. Who was his adviser? Was it a
+gentleman with owl spectacles from the oil fields of Texas? And was there
+no one who could have cautioned him against the finesse of Clemenceau who
+spent sixty years sharpening his wits on the political grindstone of
+Europe? Was no one in America aware that the French Premier is a fluent
+speaker in English?</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Wilson could speak no French, which reminds me that Jack Spratt could
+eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean, and so betwixt them both they
+licked the platter clean. But a clean plate does not mean a clean slate,
+and the President brought one home filled with the riddle of the Sphinx.
+Yet the Peace Conference revealed the secret of perpetual motion and
+conferred a timely service, for the hubbub created by the
+Wilson-Lansing-House-Party at Versailles kept the Senate from passing into
+a trance.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span>A blind man can tell the difference between pepper pods and apple
+dumplings, but who can tell where tweedle-dee ends and tweedle-dum begins?
+No one. Then how can your statesmen distinguish between the psychological
+characteristics of the Hungarians and the Bohemians, the Bavarians and the
+Saxons, the difference between a polka and a polonaise, a pig in a stye
+and a pig in a slaughter house?</p>
+
+<p>Patriotism often depends on an influence too subtle for analysis, and yet
+they would enact drastic laws to bind all Europe in one bond. They will
+hardly succeed in a thousand years.</p>
+
+<p>Some pay through the nose, some through the pocket and some through the
+stomach. Americans are paying through all three. Danton declared the
+secret of the French Revolution was audacity, and audacity, and again
+audacity, but what you need today is vigilance repeated ad infinitum.</p>
+
+<p>I am placing you in communication with some of the most far-reaching minds
+of the past hundred and fifty years. The psycho-phone is new and we are
+using it for the first time.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THE LATE GENERAL U. S. GRANT</h2>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">Recorded September Ninth, 1920</span></p>
+
+<p>The imbroglio started by President Carranza is beginning to influence the
+politicians of Buenos Ayres and other centers in South America. They have
+secretly repudiated the Monroe Doctrine. Their next maneuver will be a
+public repudiation.</p>
+
+<p>I would say to Congress, stop juggling with phrases and attend to the
+business of the hour. The majority have been chasing shadows in a sphere
+of politics illumined by moonshine bottled in the Blue Ridge. I was more
+careful of my brand. When President Lincoln asked for the label, so he
+could recommend it to other generals, he was not far wrong in his
+surmises. It is not so much the thing as the quality that counts. Most of
+you at Washington will have to learn the difference between inhibition and
+prohibition.</p>
+
+<p>The United States will be isolated within three years from this date if
+the blowhards<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> from the woolly constituencies are not suppressed. You need
+a broncho buster in the Senate and a donkey muzzler in the House.</p>
+
+<p>When a boycott is started by the countries south of the Union your enemies
+in Europe will begin to act. It is not a question of commerce but of
+common sense. I repeat what Lincoln said in 1862: &#8220;The times are dark and
+the spirits of ruin are abroad in all their power.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>My message to Congress is: See that fifty thousand troops are stationed
+permanently near the District of Columbia.</p>
+
+<p>My message to the Governors of New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois is: Get
+ready! The troops on the borders of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona are
+inadequate. The fortifications of the Panama and at San Diego and San
+Pedro are inadequate. You are in the same condition the French were in
+previous to 1789, when the motto was, &#8220;After us the Deluge.&#8221; The Deluge
+came but it did not consist of water.</p>
+
+<p>Our foes of the old Germany and the new Russia count on crippling the
+United States through South America, with the aid of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> Japan; but he who
+delivers the first blow will be the victor.</p>
+
+<p>The Germans still believe they can eventually invade France, enter Paris
+and cause a revolution, found a new empire to include France, Belgium,
+Holland and Switzerland, with Italy later on. This dream includes a
+practical understanding with Soviet Russia, which, by that time, they
+expect would be weary of futile experiments. Plots will be exposed that
+will make it apparent how vain some of your optimistic surmises have been.
+Diplomats who are not psychologists will be balked by developments in
+Switzerland, that nation having become the rendezvous of disillusioned
+wire-pullers without a country.</p>
+
+<p>You are now at the cross roads. Take the wrong turning and you will come
+to the skull and cross bones.</p>
+
+<p>I could say much more but we are not yet experts in this new mode of
+inter-communication and must be brief.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p>
+<h2>GENERAL U. S. GRANT.</h2>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">(Second Message)</span></p>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">Recorded May Third, 1921</span></p>
+
+<p>I concur with Alexander Stephens when he says: &#8220;Congress has never been so
+supine and so serpentine.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Millions are sent to the people of distant countries in no way related to
+our Government or people, and yet Congress permits thousands of veterans
+of the great war to continue in a state of neglect, suffering and
+humiliation.</p>
+
+<p>Do the authorities believe that when the day of trial arrives the friends
+and relatives of these veterans will hurry to volunteer for active
+service? The country is being fascinated by incidents and events in
+far-off regions, and the tragic conditions at home have entered a chronic
+stage.</p>
+
+<p>There are too many old men in Congress&mdash;men who never did more than fight
+grasshoppers or watch a game of football from reserved seats.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span>We do not like the looks of the President&#8217;s pronunciamento. It contains
+too many side issues. He is making Mr. Wilson&#8217;s mistake of being verbose.
+Mr. Wilson tried to hypnotize Europe; the Senate is trying to hypnotize
+Mr. Harding. Popularity breeds as much contempt as familiarity. No
+President can ever succeed in conciliating all classes, sections and
+parties.</p>
+
+<p>The politicians of Buenos Ayres have now spoken as I predicted in my first
+message. They have attacked Mr. Harding for his speech on Pan-Americanism,
+all which goes to prove that the President is repeating for South America
+Mr. Wilson&#8217;s blunders in France.</p>
+
+<p>Remember what Lincoln said to Judge Whitney:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;Those fellows think I don&#8217;t see anything, but I see all around them. I
+see better what they want to do with me than they do themselves.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>The politicians of South America see better what the President wants to do
+with them than he does himself.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>The administration will face a critical period in the early fall. There
+will be a break in the dominant phalanx. A social and political
+readjustment will compel mediation in quarters the most unexpected.</p>
+
+<p>The new political and commercial dispensation for the English-speaking
+countries will begin on September twenty-second at two P.M.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p>
+<h2>THOMAS JEFFERSON</h2>
+
+<p>Few politicians understand the difference between scene-shifting and
+progress. Things shift, new names are applied, but the vicious circle
+continues.</p>
+
+<p>I see no evidence that human nature has changed since my time, in this or
+any other country.</p>
+
+<p>If the Republican Ship of State is leaking, the Democratic craft is
+drifting without sail or rudder. What your statesmen fail to understand is
+that progress is not induced by force but by free will. New political
+planks rammed into your platforms against the wishes of the majority are
+without significance. The phrase, &#8220;The Solid South,&#8221; which meant something
+vital at one time, has no meaning in these days of quick change and
+movie-show influences.</p>
+
+<p>Democracy, in some sections, is a matter of climate. If you have come to a
+point where science and sentimentality are engaged in a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> drastic war, then
+the Democratic phalanx must undergo some rude changes.</p>
+
+<p>The Democratic tail wagged the Republican dog for some time, but that
+curious spectacle has lost its hold on public interest. It is not now a
+question of one end wagging the other, but who will wag both. If
+Republicans stand for crude force, and Democrats for antebellum
+sentimentality, both are doomed together.</p>
+
+<p>In the South, Democracy means politics at the polls, aristocracy in the
+parlor. In the North, Republicanism means the aristocracy of wealth.</p>
+
+<p>However, your conception of social equality is undergoing modification.</p>
+
+<p>In Washington&#8217;s time the slogan was revolution; in Lincoln&#8217;s time it was
+abolition; in your time it is prohibition, which reminds me that laws
+passed in haste bring long periods of repentance.</p>
+
+<p>Effective effrontery is the result of courageous ignorance, for millions
+are more easily influenced by illusive promises than by the lessons of
+experience.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span>Modern civilization has hurried to meet four deadly things&mdash;riches,
+pleasures, materialism and war. But the tortoise is a better example of
+progress than the hare fleeing before the greyhound.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p>
+<h2>ELIZABETH CADY STANTON</h2>
+
+<p>It appalls the normal mind to stop and consider the criminal blunders made
+by the educated Prussian and the educated Englishman prior to 1914. No
+statesman had the vision to see what was going to happen to the man-made
+world.</p>
+
+<p>Since it is a question of intuition and feeling versus cold reason and
+business logic, let us see which side is the more vital and all-enduring.
+Let us consider for a brief space what it is that influences people. Let
+us consider the influence exerted by the arts. What is music? Emotion
+created by sound vibrations. What is dramatic acting? Emotion created by
+vocal vibrations combined with gesture and physical movement. Has anyone
+ever witnessed automatic acting that left a profound impression?</p>
+
+<p>Orators become famous when they unite deep feeling with knowledge. But
+what gives expression? The power of awakening emotion<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> in others. Feeling
+is always more convincing than intellect. Intellect is full of theories,
+notions and superstitions. But where you find deep feeling combined with
+knowledge, you will find reason directed by qualities which pass through
+the surface and attain the heart-throbs of the real.</p>
+
+<p>There are many kinds of emotion. There is the hard emotion of anger, the
+confused emotion of fear, the painful emotion of jealousy, the
+indescribable emotion of despair, the radiant emotion of joy. But the
+greatest emotion of all is that of knowledge united to feeling.</p>
+
+<p>Men, as a rule, speak of emotion as a weakness, and they confuse it with
+impulse&mdash;a very different thing. Impulse is often the result of weak
+nerves, uncontrolled by the will; but we must not confuse it with the
+emotional quality which underlies all great achievement in art,
+literature, philosophy and personality. The more impulsive the individual
+is, the more primitive the reasoning faculty.</p>
+
+<p>English and American business men are limited in general knowledge. I have
+never been able to discover any distinctive difference<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> between the two.
+In France and Italy many business men are able to discuss art, literature
+and music on the same level with the masters. The Latin races and the
+Celtic races possess a culture that can be traced back for two or three
+thousand years, but Anglo-Saxon culture only to the time of the Saxon
+invasion. The Anglo-Saxons were the mushrooms of our civilization. They
+were a stolid business people who lacked creative genius.</p>
+
+<p>The outstanding intellect of England today is Celtic. The Scotch, the
+Irish and the Welsh combine emotion and power with tenacity of purpose,
+and it is this Celtic element that keeps America in the front rank of
+nations.</p>
+
+<p>What women have been opposing is the primitive monotony of the Anglo-Saxon
+trend. It has meant a mixture of politics and commerce so primitive and so
+naive that Frenchmen are amazed when they visit America and note the
+striking difference between the culture of the women and the mentality of
+the average man.</p>
+
+<p>One of your great mystics has said: &#8220;The chemical constituents of human
+bodies is the same. The ashes of a saint and the ashes of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> a sinner give
+the same chemical results. As human bodies they are the same, but their
+functions separate them and make them totally different, so that the
+difference cannot by any hocus-pocus of metaphysics or magic be bridged or
+spanned.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Two things of the same material are really different if their functions
+are different. The real substance of a thing is in its function. We have
+to judge people by the things they do, not by their appearance; for there
+is no clear understanding between two persons whose aims are different.
+This is why there are so many divorces. This is why so many intellectual
+women live separate lives from their husbands in the same house.</p>
+
+<p>People seem to be similar and equal but they differ according to their
+functions. If we take a philosopher, a hangman and a sailor who appear to
+be equal as human beings we shall see that in their functions there is
+nothing in common. The souls of these men are different in the very
+nature, origin and purpose of their existence.</p>
+
+<p>Thousands of people move in a world of material shadows while their souls,
+the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span>substance of which is intellectual and spiritual, inhabit a sphere
+absolutely apart. Especially is this the case with many of the cultured
+women of our time who are compelled to live a double life. Their
+intellects are far removed from the ordinary pursuits of the commercial
+world.</p>
+
+<p>A woman of spiritual culture who marries a commercial man has married a
+shadow. A woman of high ideals who marries a professional politician has
+hitched her motor car to a meteor. A romantic woman married to a
+multi-millionaire whose world is bound in liberty bonds loses her liberty.
+A metaphysical woman who marries a financier is handicapped by the
+physical.</p>
+
+<p>A union of spiritual functions with material formulas is impossible, for
+there is no way in which mere sensation can be made to harmonize with the
+higher emotions.</p>
+
+<p>The new era of woman, which is just beginning to dawn, will direct
+education; and through education, politics; through politics, the progress
+of nations. Heretofore, the commercial and political world had a free
+hand. The progressive element was confined to a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> limited number of men in
+the colleges and the ministry, together with a remnant of law-makers. But
+their influence was negative owing to lack of material support.</p>
+
+<p>Women will now present a formidable force in numbers, backed by a
+spiritual power, aided by men who understand the difference between
+functions and appearance, sensuous desires and ideal emotions.</p>
+
+<p>For years I maintained that women do not realize the power they possess.
+They live so much in a world of their own that they do not regard the
+man-made commercial world as worth elevating.</p>
+
+<p>Thousands of men are living in a sphere some degrees below the normal.
+They have been surrounded from the beginning with influences that
+obliterate all the higher faculties of the mind.</p>
+
+<p>It has taken woman some centuries to rise to power, but the work is only
+half done. Never can the commercial instinct and the intellectual ideal be
+made to harmonize. The two spheres of consciousness are totally distinct.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>The modern intellect has been organized without considering the moral
+meaning of its activity. This has caused the delusion that the crowning
+glory of European culture is the dreadnaught. Ninety per cent of all
+modern inventions are for bodily destruction or bodily comfort. While the
+body lolls in luxury, the spirit is soused in lethargy.</p>
+
+<p>As Ouspensky says, we have created two lives&mdash;one material, the other
+spiritual. I believe this is owing to the fact that man is living and
+working in the material and woman in the spiritual. In other words, she is
+carrying her own responsibilities on one shoulder and man&#8217;s baneful
+burdens on the other. The figure of Atlas holding up the Globe should be
+changed to that of a female.</p>
+
+<p>One would think that in these days, when psychology is taught even to
+children, that a man who has lived forty years in the world of action
+would know better than to boast of his eternal activities. The word &#8220;busy&#8221;
+has grown to be a veritable fetish with thousands who have little or
+nothing to do. The truth is, most men are not half as busy as they seem
+and not more than a fourth as wise as they look.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span>We have to find out by exact analysis just what incentive lies behind
+people&#8217;s actions. What makes the distinction is the quality of our acts.
+Everything in the material and the spiritual worlds is judged according to
+quality. Gold, diamonds, clothes, bricks, music, poetry, literature, are
+adjudged, in the last resort, on the basis of intrinsic value. When people
+are engaged in pursuits for the sake of money the results will be on a
+plane with the quality of the incentive.</p>
+
+<p>In the work done by women in the past fifty years in this country, the
+incentive has been of a higher quality than that shown by men.</p>
+
+<p>While men introduced a coarse realism into the novel, women saved the
+situation by new ideals. I do not think there would be much left worth
+reading today but for woman&#8217;s taste and judgment.</p>
+
+<p>In the world of intellect and emotion things hang together. A low plane of
+intellect will produce low impulses. The more we know the greater our
+control of the different sense organs. Nothing can happen without a
+corresponding cause behind it.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span>The hysteria so common at great political conventions is caused by the
+exceedingly limited intelligence of the managers and directors who labor
+under the illusion that blind impulse is tantamount to vision. In other
+words, where the critical faculties are not developed anything can happen.
+And it is not difficult to predict that when political conventions are
+swayed by hysterical temperaments the authority at the White House will
+have all he can do to steer the Ship of State through the troubled waters
+of impulse and confusion.</p>
+
+<p>There is a will to power that is blind. There is another will to power
+that brings the higher emotions to bear on the lower impulses, controls
+and directs the organs of sense.</p>
+
+<p>The people who elect a President are the ones who will influence his
+actions. And when we talk about a President being a good man for business
+we are compelled to seek for the reason behind the statement.</p>
+
+<p>If finance lands a President at the White House, women, children, teachers
+and philosophers must shift for themselves, since the supreme test lies in
+function, and not in <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span>manners, words and looks. And finance means finesse.</p>
+
+<p>Do not expect great innovations at the Capitol until a strong woman takes
+her seat at the White House; and by this I do not mean one of Barnum&#8217;s
+bearded ladies.</p>
+
+<p>Conservatism is a good thing when it is coupled with vision and judgment,
+but bear in mind that monotony and mediocrity start in the same groove,
+run at the same pace and arrive at the same grave.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p>
+<h2>BENJAMIN FRANKLIN</h2>
+
+<p>There is but one mark of patriotism and that is vigilance and enthusiasm.
+The cause of your trouble is the sincerity with which your foes think and
+act and the lukewarm sentiment shown by Americans. The reason is to be
+found in the comfort and luxury of the present day compared with the
+pioneer sacrifices of your fathers and grandfathers. Your opponents are
+vindictive as well as vigilant. They mean what they say and do what they
+will. They are working as individuals, as well as in groups and parties,
+but Americans who inherited the land with liberty are exchanging both for
+the license of the maw.</p>
+
+<p>When school teachers and farm hands are permitted to leave the country for
+the city, the end is not so far off as your sophisticated solons of the
+State Capitols would lead you to suppose.</p>
+
+<p>I once stated that three movings equal one fire, and I can say now that
+the lack of teachers and farm hands has resulted in a damage<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> equal to one
+revolution. No calamity comes and goes single handed. The world, the flesh
+and the devil are a triumvirate bound together by ties of consanguinity.
+Your school teachers are passing over to the world, your farm laborers to
+the flesh, and your ministers to the devil.</p>
+
+<p>You are browsing on the stubble. One delinquency involves another, and
+eventually the monetary capital of the nation may be reduced to that of
+France. The nation will awake one day to the disillusioning fact that
+peace and progress cannot be gauged by commercial prosperity alone. For
+without food what avails your steel, your oil and your gold?</p>
+
+<p>If you could witness the mortification poor Andrew Carnegie is now
+undergoing because of his lack of vision, you would have a lesson not soon
+forgotten. He built libraries but furnished no books to fill them. It was
+like building houses without windows. When leading business men commit
+such folly what can you expect of the nation at large?</p>
+
+<p>The three things most needed by the people are food, raiment and shelter.
+The next<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> three are instruction, religion and discipline. Liberty is a
+privilege; it comes after all the others. The individual has no rights
+inimical to those of the collective conscience.</p>
+
+<p>Until you learn this fundamental maxim, all your knowledge will prove but
+a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.</p>
+
+<p>The nations are rattling over the cobble stones of bankruptcy on a
+buckboard of compromise, on the high road to revolution.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p>
+<h2>JOHN MARSHALL</h2>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">(The Expounder of the Constitution)</span></p>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">Recorded October, 1920</span></p>
+
+<p>Some recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States are, more
+than any other factor, calculated to develop and foster an element of
+national unrest. Its deliberations are beyond the intelligence of many and
+above the interests of the majority. Its psychology is that of a divorce
+between capital and labor. Its rulings remind me of what transpired in
+England early in the nineteenth century.</p>
+
+<p>Many who were not socialists are beginning to turn from the older order,
+imbued with the feeling that nothing could happen in the future worse for
+the country at large than the conditions that are being endured in the
+present.</p>
+
+<p>A revolution arrives after a series of connected events which exhausts the
+patience of the public, and events are moving with intensity as well as
+rapidity.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p>
+<h2>DANIEL WEBSTER</h2>
+
+<p>You will search the pages of history in vain without finding a parallel to
+present conditions.</p>
+
+<p>The war gave Bohemia her freedom; at the same time it licensed a bohemian
+poet to keep Italy stewing in her own juice, a bohemian journalist from
+New York to direct affairs in Moscow, and a bohemian socialist from
+Switzerland to rule over Russia.</p>
+
+<p>Added to this a fashionable ladies&#8217; pianist has tried his hand, or should
+I say fingers, in the science of unfurling the sails of Poland&#8217;s new Ship
+of State, while shop-keepers direct affairs in Germany and pusilanimous
+politicians keep the people of America in a state of tepid trepidation and
+flatulent turmoil. Can you wonder that the country is being hypnotized by
+the sight of so many cantankerous cataleptics?</p>
+
+<p>Macbeth declared he had waded in so far that returning would be as
+perilous as going<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> on. Nothing will move them until they are swamped by
+the high tide of reaction and flung as flotsam on the rocks of a stormy
+opportunism.</p>
+
+<p>A new Damocles has a sword suspended over the National Capitol, and
+liberty hangs to the hinges of the Constitution by a hair.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p>
+<h2>OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES</h2>
+
+<p>While a few people are ready to return to first principles, many are
+giving expressions to Garden of Eden proclivities. But instead of the old
+Eve, you have the new Amazon; instead of the old serpent, copperheads in
+Congress; instead of the old Adam, fresh brands of bluebeards.</p>
+
+<p>Agreeable to the apple of the new Adam&#8217;s eye and the fruitarian diet of
+the new Eden, some ladies have adopted the fig-leaf standard. But let that
+pass for the moment, always bearing in mind that he who loses his sense of
+humor loses his equilibrium.</p>
+
+<p>Millions of people are dancing their legs off to keep their heads on.</p>
+
+<p>Providence is wiser than the moralists.</p>
+
+<p>There was a way out of the trenches and there is a way out of the
+pessimism developed by the dying dispensation. It is not so much a
+question of keeping your powder dry as it is of keeping your wits from
+congealing.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span>Beware of nebulous notions and theories. Uncanny kinks lead to calamitous
+brain storms. A stitch in the side saves nine&mdash;kicks behind the solar
+plexus.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p>
+<h2>BENJAMIN WADE</h2>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">(Late Governor of Ohio&mdash;U. S. Senator)</span></p>
+
+<p>Viewed in the light that shines on the White House, there is no difference
+between a man from Ohio and a gentleman from Indiana.</p>
+
+<p>Men from the pumpkin pie districts think and feel alike, judging world
+politics by the yard-stick method that prevailed in their villages when
+they were young men. They are not always aware that political ruts cause
+social ructions.</p>
+
+<p>The all-wool-and-a-yard-wide politician was home-spun and honestly
+patriotic, but what you need is a home-spun thinker whose vision has got
+beyond the yard-stick measure and can take in the whole world.</p>
+
+<p>An old-school president, at this juncture, will have little more authority
+than a Congo king would have at a conference of jurists in Paris.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span>Has anyone taken the trouble to find out just what distinguishes the
+minority from the majority?</p>
+
+<p>While the home-spun politician was eating cookies and buckwheat cakes made
+by his mother in the Middle West, some millions in New York, Chicago,
+Cleveland, and other foreign centers, were partaking of wienerwurst,
+sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and rye bread, and clinking beer glasses,
+according to the custom of Continental Europe.</p>
+
+<p>If we say that a statesman represents Americanism, the question arises
+what kind of Americanism? The Yankee, the Southerner, each had his place
+in the political economy of America from 1776 to the Emancipation
+Proclamation in 1863, and even up to the Cleveland Administration, after
+which conditions began to change with startling rapidity, when the
+children born of foreign parents were beginning to come of age and the
+European ferment began to leaven the lumps of sectional dough.</p>
+
+<p>The man who occupies the White House in 1921 should take Time by the
+forelock and the profiteer with the padlock, know how to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> translate &#8220;Es
+ist verboten&#8221; into Russian, and say, &#8220;Get thee behind me, Satan,&#8221; in
+Esperanto.</p>
+
+<p>If honesty, alone, is the best and only policy, our country would be safe,
+but honesty is only one of the qualities necessary in these days to carry
+a President through the mazes of a complex administration. Honesty does
+not always imply clear vision or even ordinary common sense. The faculties
+of diplomatic tact and political judgment are infinitely more important,
+and experience still more so.</p>
+
+<p>In America the roles enacted by professional politicians remind one of a
+masquerade where everyone is trying to penetrate behind the masks and
+guessing is the rule. If in this heterogeneous ball-room you slap your
+partner on the back, you may elicit a grunt from a grouchy bolshevik or a
+groan from a disgruntled &#8220;bohemian.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>And yet Congress enacts laws for Americans who understand no dialect but
+their own and who have to engage interpreters when they visit Paris. How
+many wealthy Americans realize that these United States have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> outgrown the
+cookie era, the buckwheat pancake era, the corn cob era, the wooden nutmeg
+era, and arrived at the root-hog-or-die era?</p>
+
+<p>Young America today no more resembles the young America of thirty years
+ago than a butterfly resembles a caterpillar. Young men and women are
+sixty per cent cosmopolitan and forty per cent rebel.</p>
+
+<p>During the next five years the number of young people who will insist on
+thinking for themselves will increase two-fold, because in that time many
+thousands of children born of foreign parents in America will have become
+mature enough to have fixed upon some sort of ideal.</p>
+
+<p>Congress will realize the situation when it is too late for regrets to be
+of any service. Which calls to mind a story apropos of this pressing
+subject: A landlady, having no means of obtaining meat for her boarders,
+made a stew out of a litter of kittens. The truth became known in a day or
+two. One of the boarders said the very thought made her sick, to which the
+landlady replied: &#8220;Feeling sick won&#8217;t do no good; them kittens has all
+been digested.&#8221;</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p>
+<h2>DON PIATT</h2>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">(Late Editor of &#8220;The Capital,&#8221; Washington, D. C.)</span></p>
+
+<p>Where are the debaters whose rapier tongues ripped up the rag dolls of
+Congress and kept the floor of the House supplied with fresh saw-dust,
+whose fantastic fencing and heart-piercing thrusts were the delight of the
+gallery and the terror of fire eaters. Gone, gone where the woodbine
+twineth. What went they out for to see? A reed shaken by the wind? There
+is a difference in reeds. Tom Reed of Maine shook the House, but the House
+never shook him. What were his favorite drinks? There was plenty to choose
+from in the Washington of his day. But note the difference between the wit
+of the Maine Reed and that of the Missouri Reed.</p>
+
+<p>On the other hand, where did Bryan get the &#8220;cross of gold&#8221; inspiration in
+the old days? Did he do it on tannic acid released<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> from tea leaves? Who
+will ever know? One thing is certain&mdash;he never again rose to the same
+level.</p>
+
+<p>Is our planet revolving toward a second edition of puritanism? Probably.
+The esprit de corps that animated the body politic begins to resemble a
+corpse with the esprit evaporated.</p>
+
+<p>The human mind needs moments of exaltation as well as relaxation.
+Brilliant results are not produced by lukewarm sentiments expressed in a
+voice that lacks enthusiasm.</p>
+
+<p>Washington is now a resort for celluloid cynics and a refuge for asbestos
+patriots whose marmorian snobbery makes me think of the ruins of temples
+abandoned by the gods and forgotten by man.</p>
+
+<p>The great blunder of the prohibitionists was made when they condemned beer
+and light wine. Nature abhors abruptness. Progress is not made by sudden
+jerks and violent laws passed in a hurry.</p>
+
+<p>If a few persons living in an obscure village in Ohio can bring about a
+movement like prohibition, the same influence can bring about a return of
+the old Connecticut blue laws.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span>Violent actions are followed by violent reactions. From this there is no
+escape.</p>
+
+<p>The fundamental objection to prohibition, as it stands, lies in the cold
+fact that provincialism, no matter how sincere, can never compete with
+international common sense and cosmopolitan culture.</p>
+
+<p>Village residents are ignorant of the laws that govern society in the most
+intelligent centers of the world. What will be the result in the long run?
+Antagonism between the people of the cities and the people of the country.</p>
+
+<p>When they prohibit tobacco, a war of cuss words will be followed by a
+battle of cuspidors, and the very crows will cuss the crocuses.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p>
+<h2>BENJAMIN DISRAELI</h2>
+
+<p>Some Members of Parliament have lost their reason, the majority have lost
+their wits, all are without vision.</p>
+
+<p>Lloyd George presents the curious spectacle of a man of the people who
+observes them through the glasses of a Welsh Calvinist. He is a democrat
+with the demeanor of a lord, a radical who has fallen between the two
+stools of the middle-class and the landed aristocracy. Nonconformist
+sentimentality, on one hand, and titled wealth on the other, have blinded
+him to the imperative needs of the time and the dangers that confront the
+Empire.</p>
+
+<p>The English people of the past twenty years have suffered as much from
+misgovernment as the Germans and the Russians, but they cannot stop the
+present stream of progress by clatter in the House and appeals to
+patriotism.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span>For years England has been saddled with cabinets composed of professional
+humorists and hum-drum moralists.</p>
+
+<p>Augustine Birrell was a diluted edition of Sydney Smith, and Bonar Law
+should have been a professor of theology in a Presbyterian seminary. Sir
+Edward Carson played the role of an unfrocked priest in the service of
+demiurgos. Earl Curzon is a political derelict whose presence in the
+Council Chamber prevents unity and impedes progress.</p>
+
+<p>History will record their acts as the most amazing in the annals of Great
+Britain. I see nothing for the old order but unconditional surrender. The
+hand-writing on the wall was visible in 1909, but no preparation was made
+for the change which is now sweeping the country with cyclonic force.</p>
+
+<p>We, from our side, can do no more than utter some words of warning for the
+few who have ears to hear, the tidal wave of change not being confined to
+particular countries or regions.</p>
+
+<p>I, too, when Prime Minister, was blind to the reality, having been born
+and reared in an atmosphere as foreign to that of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> masses as the
+atmosphere of the Winter Palace was foreign to the peasants of Russia.</p>
+
+<p>We staggered under the load of a wealthy and titled upper class. They
+consumed the people&#8217;s time and imposed infinite misery on some millions of
+toilers, and for these things we rewarded the men at the top with fresh
+titles.</p>
+
+<p>As you know, I led the Conservative Party in England for many years, but
+that Party was, and still is, avid for power.</p>
+
+<p>The Liberal Party was made up of men using Nonconformity as an instrument
+of advancement. They placed opportunity above the truth, position above
+principle, power above progress. We were all intellectual automatons, set
+in motion by springs wound up by leaders who were themselves automatons.</p>
+
+<p>England goes by machinery. Her very existence is mechanical. Now, when a
+loose screw stops the evolution of the wheels, the whole nation stops.</p>
+
+<p>In what way can we be said to excel in probity of conduct the people of
+Ireland? In what way are we superior to Irish politicians? The scandals
+that occurred in London<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> during the war would not have been tolerated in
+Dublin under an Irish Parliament. And still England is being led by a
+Welsh Calvinist, opposed by a Scottish humorist who says his prayers,
+backed by Anglican agnostics and middle-class dissenters overwhelmed with
+fear.</p>
+
+<p>We always imitate the French, but while we accepted Voltairianism in
+principle, the French had the courage to put it into practice.</p>
+
+<p>While the French became practical pagans in 1789, we became practical
+hypocrites.</p>
+
+<p>It is this element that has created the moral indifference of the Anglican
+Church and the intellectual apathy of the so-called Nonconformist
+conscience. This is why there is no stability behind the old phraseology,
+the old ceremonials, the old confessions of faith&mdash;now so many catch-words
+which the people abhor. And this is why the working men find it so easy to
+send their leaders to Parliament. For the same reason Russian radicalism
+is certain of a warm welcome on English soil.</p>
+
+<p>It is true that this hypocrisy is subconscious, having had its origin
+during the French<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> Revolution. This renders it far more dangerous because
+political leaders in England today are mentally incompetent to realize the
+danger that lies before them.</p>
+
+<p>We cannot reason with people whose vision is dulled by four generations of
+moral apathy. Hence they will continue to &#8220;kick against the pricks&#8221; to the
+bitter end. There will be strife added to strife, confusion to confusion,
+and they, themselves, will invite the drastic events which must follow so
+much stubborn resistance to the demands of common justice and the progress
+of civilization.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p>
+<h2>PRINCE BISMARCK</h2>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">Recorded November 3d, 1920</span></p>
+
+<p>When I imposed an indemnity of five billion francs on the French people in
+1870 we knew that the money could and would be paid. But there is no
+parallel between Germany in 1920 and France in 1870. The Reparations
+Commission has only succeeded in proving its incompetence. The German
+delegates have shown that the Allied war claims amount to more than five
+hundred billion marks (gold), which is nearly four thousand billions at
+the present rate of exchange.</p>
+
+<p>This fantastic sum, one hundred times more than France paid to Germany in
+1870, is expected of a country on the verge of revolution and chaos. I
+charge this Commission with incompetence, extravagance, luxurious living,
+and claims at once absurd and ridiculous.</p>
+
+<p>You punish some of the most dangerous criminals by indeterminate
+sentences, which<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> frequently end after a year&#8217;s imprisonment, but you
+expect to hold the German people in financial bondage for more than a
+generation to come because of the criminal blunders of less than a hundred
+individuals.</p>
+
+<p>I was blinded by material factors at the time of my seeming triumphs but
+now I can see some of the things which will never come to pass. The French
+and the English are repeating some of the blunders I made fifty years ago.
+They are counting on conditions which will never exist, like a bird
+sitting on a nest of mixed eggs from which the cuckoo will eventually oust
+all the other birds.</p>
+
+<p>French people are under the illusion that Russia will meet the obligations
+undertaken by the late Czar. To expect such a thing shows the child-like
+illusions under which French fanatics are living. They are still wrapped
+in the swaddling clothes of politics.</p>
+
+<p>We committed crimes that have brought civilization to the brink of chaos,
+but we are not capable of such naivete.</p>
+
+<p>The logic of a Frenchman is no better than the mysticism of a Russian or
+the sentimentality of an Englishman. French people<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> learned nothing from
+the blunders of Napoleon III and the debacle of Sedan. And the reason?
+They have remained provincial while the Germans imitated the commercial
+cosmopolitanism of the English.</p>
+
+<p>Advice is the cheapest of all things. Nevertheless, I advise your
+statesmen to place no reliance on sentimental contracts written on paper
+foredoomed to become &#8220;scraps.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>I do not hesitate to declare that no agreement signed since 1913 is worth
+more than the seals. In Europe, leaders and rulers have passed from an
+international game of chess to a national gamble with marked cards.</p>
+
+<p>You have now to deal with an element which did not exist in my time. This
+element embraces all factions of the new radicalism, no matter in what
+country or under what leader. Some of these elements may unite, but they
+are not going to change. How, then, can you undertake to insure the future
+by contracts signed and sealed by elderly gentlemen with good intentions
+and poor judgment?</p>
+
+<p>The war gave the new factions the long wished-for opportunity. They seized
+it in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> Russia, in Germany, in Poland, in Britain, and other countries. But
+the opportunities created by the war are one thing, the opportunities of
+tomorrow will be different, and it is this contingency for which your
+leaders are not prepared. You will have to select men of vision who will
+judge events as they arrive, without regard to the distant future, which
+belongs to no man.</p>
+
+<p>One of my greatest mistakes was in separating Protestant Prussia from the
+interests of the Catholics of South Germany.</p>
+
+<p>The new radicalism is opposed to some things which are irrevocably linked
+with religious doctrine.</p>
+
+<p>Without the Catholic Church all Europe would be in the throes of the
+Commune. The principal cause of our disintegration was that we sanctioned
+Protestant flirtation with modern materialism.</p>
+
+<p>France is beginning to see that even a weak monarchy is better than a
+radical government without a God.</p>
+
+<p>You may expect a return of the monarchy in more than one country.
+Agnostics and Protestants, moved by fear on one side, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span> disgust on the
+other, will unite for a restoration as their last hope. There will be a
+repetition of historic events.</p>
+
+<p>Bonaparte was ushered in by the French Revolution, and his advent was
+followed by three kings and one emperor.</p>
+
+<p>The majority treat their rulers as children treat their toys: when the
+novelty wears off a change is demanded.</p>
+
+<p>Political psychology and religious sentiment are not the same thing.
+Nevertheless, they must be considered together. The Germans are now
+awaiting the hour when the inevitable change will be demanded. Events take
+crowns from some heads and place them on others. If the ex-Kaiser ever
+occupies the throne again a modern Nero will fiddle amidst the ruins of
+German imperialism, for you know he meddled with fiddle strings as well as
+with political wires.</p>
+
+<p>You think it strange? The impossible is always happening. Never lose sight
+of the fact that an organized minority is more formidable than a
+disorganized majority. Three men brought about the coup d&#8217;etat that placed
+the outcast Louis Napoleon on the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> throne, one man started the Russian
+Revolution, I planned the overthrow of the Second Empire with the aid of
+Count von Moltke. The majority put their trust in numbers, but the bigger
+a thing grows the nearer it is to disintegration. An autocratic minority
+ruled in Germany, an automatic majority rules in France and England. Two
+men started the present rule in Moscow, both of them from the outside.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;God has been merciful to us,&#8221; said Cavour, in the Italian Senate, &#8220;He has
+made Spain one degree lower than Italy.&#8221; God has been merciful to Germany,
+He has made Russian communism more abhorrent than German socialism.</p>
+
+<p>Nothing will be left undone by the French government to secure permanent
+occupation of the coal district of the Rhine.</p>
+
+<p>Conditions will not remain long as they are. They are preparing decisive
+coups in Bavaria, Hanover, Austria and Hungary. New combinations will
+amaze your statesmen and diplomats, who are ignorant of the fact that
+changes and upheavals operate in cycles of three and seven. What they call
+chance is the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> working of law. Spiritual forces operate through the
+physical, and nature will take a hand in the reactions in Petrograd and
+Moscow. Cold, hunger and starvation will dissipate the hopes of the ruling
+minority. Untold numbers will be sacrificed.</p>
+
+<p>During the French Revolution philosophers and thinkers were decapitated.
+In Russia such men are killed by hunger, the difference being one of
+method.</p>
+
+<p>Such conditions will be repeated in different countries until people learn
+that the spiritual cannot be separated from the material without pain and
+slaughter.</p>
+
+<p>After all the long-winded conferences and shorthand reports nothing is
+left but a confusion of blots on the tissue paper of time.</p>
+
+<p>I may say more on another occasion.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p>
+<h2>HENRY WARD BEECHER</h2>
+
+<p>The happy-go-lucky humor of the day is no match for the cool calculation
+of European communists. English and American humorists do for the public
+what the court jester once did for blas&eacute; kings.</p>
+
+<p>In the sardonic temper of the Russian revolutionist, I see a return of the
+French temper of 1793.</p>
+
+<p>Most of the sermons and speeches of the time are chameleon in character
+and tepid in feeling. English humorists developed a flagrant cynicism,
+spotted with a varioloid paradox, while French writers have halted between
+the isolation of the hospital and the insularity of the home.</p>
+
+<p>The war brought Anatole France to his senses, the last of the Gallic wits,
+who possessed a greater charm than Voltaire without attaining his
+universal prestige. Prince Bismarck declares that the French have learned
+nothing since their defeat at Sedan.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> Yet French writers have learned more
+from the great war than the writers of any other country.</p>
+
+<p>English humor is meant to entertain a public lost in the cynical
+buffooneries of materialism; American humor is meant to amuse a public
+lost in the mazes of extravagant pleasures and provincial inanities.</p>
+
+<p>English humor has a certain seal; American humor a certain mark&mdash;the
+difference between sealing wax and a postage stamp. Both aim to fill the
+ghastly gap left by the doctrine of evolution since it caught the fancy of
+agnostic freebooters in 1870&mdash;forerunners of something grimmer than the
+Soviet symbols of a return of puritanism even now creeping into view as
+ivy creeps up the water spouts.</p>
+
+<p>Laughter will vanish, since there will be nothing left to laugh at.
+Dancing will cease, for curfew will ring at nine and people will begin
+work at five.</p>
+
+<p>Remember that all the great modern movements had an obscure origin.
+Spiritualism began in a country farm-house, Christian<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> Science developed
+out of mediumship, prohibition was started in a village, woman&#8217;s suffrage
+was started by a Quakeress, Theosophy began at a farm-house in Vermont,
+the Salvation Army was started by a group of obscure persons.</p>
+
+<p>The new puritanism will start by a committee of persons unknown to the
+public, chosen from the ranks of the Methodists, Baptists and
+Presbyterians. Grim determinists, they will ignore satire, sarcasm and
+irony, ignore party politics, ignore the opposition of luke-warm
+Christians, form committees, in which they will be aided by drastic
+reactions during the period of readjustment.</p>
+
+<p>Centers will soon be formed in Atlanta, Nashville, Cleveland, Boston,
+Hartford, Philadelphia and Washington, D. C.</p>
+
+<p>What is causing so much crime? Not one, but many elements of decadence,
+all operating together, among which I can name rag, jazz, high balls,
+cabarets, free verse, neurotic art, sentimental optimism, cheap notions of
+progress, neutral sermons, automobilism, lack of child discipline, absence
+of fear<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span> among people under the age of forty&mdash;evils which you may apply to
+all English-speaking countries.</p>
+
+<p>The licence of the cities dominates country life and country thought. The
+city minority rules the majority in the country, and it is in the country
+that the reaction will begin.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p>
+<h2>JOHN MARSHALL</h2>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">(Second Message)</span></p>
+
+<p>Many of the smaller nations, instead of being content with their liberty,
+have thrown it away for the licence that always goes with land grabbing.
+For a nation is nothing more than an individual with a certain amount of
+collective ambition.</p>
+
+<p>Much of the work of the League of Nations will have to be undone. But it
+will not be undone by any League. The nations will settle differences in
+accordance with the law that permits the more powerful to wield control
+commensurate with their geographical and intellectual importance.</p>
+
+<p>All people have rights which ought to be respected, but some have
+privileges as well as rights, and the privileged will hold the upper hand
+as long as intelligence takes precedence of illiteracy, energy dominates
+over lethargy, and the power of organized numbers rules over minorities.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span>Your statesmen and your mediators will have to learn the distinction
+between rights and privileges. All are supposed to possess common rights
+under the common law, but it is wisdom, supported by poise and power, that
+constitutes privilege. David and Solomon were privleged. So were Alfred
+the Great, Washington and Lincoln.</p>
+
+<p>A nation is temperamental like an individual. The temperament may be
+vascillating or it may be stolid; it may be logical or it may be
+commercial; or a combination of the Saxon and the Celt.</p>
+
+<p>The nations that will hold the balance of power in the future will be the
+ones with the most will and poise, backed by number. Riches, alone, will
+not save. Wealth did not save Germany from disaster, nor did it help
+Nopoleon III to ward off the Prussian invasion in 1870. Wealth invites
+invasion and conquest. This is why England and America will now be the
+principal target for the ambitious and the discontented. This is why Japan
+seeks a firm foothold in China, and the Russians an entrance to India
+through Persia.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span>Without the prospects of loot there would be no war. When ambition and
+glory lure a nation on, the desire for loot supplies the motor force. When
+hunger forces a people to invade a nation, loot becomes a necessity.</p>
+
+<p>What the wealthy of every nation refuse to understand, or even to
+consider, is that material force engenders vanity, individualism, rivalry
+and envy. All manifestations of force contain an element of
+disintegration. The type of a nation will always represent the policy and
+the trend of the nation.</p>
+
+<p>The supreme blunder of the Peace Conference was made when the delegates,
+with Mr. Wilson at their head, refused to face the fact that no nation can
+rise above the ideals and idiosyncrasies of the national temperament, and
+that sudden liberation from restraint is as dangerous for a country as it
+is for an individual.</p>
+
+<p>There is but one step between liberty and licence, and that step meant
+pandemonium for all classes in Russia. For other peoples it may mean
+political bondage and the total loss of a national spirit. For the Hindoos
+it will mean civil wars between the different native<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> rulers, for China it
+has meant a series of revolutions and counter revolutions which may have
+to be suppressed by the drastic hand of a Japanese Bonaparte.</p>
+
+<p>The League Conference at Versailles took no account of the working of
+natural law. Sentimentality was the key-note of Mr. Wilson&#8217;s idealism, and
+commercial expansion the dominant idea of his opponents.</p>
+
+<p>As for religion exerting any fundamental influence for peace and right
+thinking, it caused Protestants to fight Protestants and Catholics to
+fight Catholics, while German and Austrian cardinals did all in their
+power to aid in the invasion and conquest of Belgium and France, on one
+hand, and Italy, the stronghold of the Papal See, on the other; and all
+this in the face of the statement of the Kaiser that Catholicism must be
+destroyed. Nothing like it has been known since the dawn of Christianity.</p>
+
+<p>The only apparent reason for the quiescent attitude of some of the smaller
+nations is that they are without the material means of waging war on their
+neighbors.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span>Just as long as politicians are impelled by self-interest there will be
+found nations that will have to use force for the suppression of licence
+and the curtailment of liberty. In every country the people are getting
+what their thoughts and deeds create for them.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p>
+<h2>ABRAHAM LINCOLN</h2>
+
+<p>Events come and go in cycles&mdash;there is a beginning, a middle and an end.
+The League of Nations had a beginning and it will have an end. But what
+kind of an end? Will it be one of victory or one of ignominy?</p>
+
+<p>The two fatal blunders of the Kaiser and his cohorts consisted in the
+delusion that England could not raise, equip and transport a body of
+troops sufficient to offer adequate resistance to the invaders of France
+in conjunction with the French and Belgian armies, and that America could
+not or would not join the European Allies.</p>
+
+<p>At the present juncture the inimical forces, both in continental Europe
+and in America, are repeating the old blunders under fresh conditions.</p>
+
+<p>History is a repetition of the old tunes with new variations. Just now the
+fireworks of sophistry and rhetoric drown out the familiar tune and what
+is heard is the buzz-saw of political machinery.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span>Hyenas are gnawing the bones left by the lion rampant of Czardom; and
+Siberia, the remnant, is being consumed by jackals from Japan. It remains
+to be seen how long voters with American pedigrees will be influenced by
+demagogues who would induce them to part with their birthright for a mess
+of pottage burnt on the bottom.</p>
+
+<p>The longer you wink at anarchy in Europe the greater will be the menace of
+social chaos at home. The worship of shibboleths cannot be kept up beyond
+a point where the majority grow tired of hocus-pocus politics and
+academical agnosticism.</p>
+
+<p>There should be harmony of interests in dealing with the people of Mexico,
+from whom you have much to learn in many ways.</p>
+
+<p>The Obregon Government should be recognized at Washington and immediate
+steps taken to insure cordial relations between the two countries.</p>
+
+<p>The City of Mexico is a capital with a great future.</p>
+
+<p>You are about to pass through a period of great confusion. Warnings have
+been given but not heeded. Unless you cease to theorize,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span> and propagate a
+spirit of justice and judgment, the near future will develop something
+more than storms in the blue china teapots of diplomacy.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span></p>
+<h2>ROBERT G. INGERSOLL</h2>
+
+<p>Washington needs a breaker of images.</p>
+
+<p>The pedestrian sauntering down Pennsylvania Avenue cannot but note the
+hefty Hancock on horseback, looking as if he had just left a meeting of
+ward politicians, and, in another part of the city, McClellan, the Beau
+Brummel of the Civil War, on a charger, sniffing the smoke of battle from
+a safe distance, and others whose names are writ in water but whose
+effigies remain in bronze.</p>
+
+<p>To the scrap heap with these, and in their places erect memorials for the
+women, who did as much for America as Joan of Arc did for France, the
+intrepid pioneers of their race, the prophetic patriots of the nineteenth
+century&mdash;Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony.</p>
+
+<p>It would take a Lincoln Memorial to depict their serenity, a National
+Capitol to symbolize their nobility, a Washington Monument to typify the
+towering height of their achievement and the scope and clarity of their
+vision.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p>
+<h2>STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS</h2>
+
+<p>A war between America and England would fill your homes with desolation
+and bring ruin to the whole country. Do your sins of omission merit such a
+punishment? I am here to tell you what to expect if such a hurricane of
+disaster ever sweeps the two countries.</p>
+
+<p>Millions of people are under the impression that the United States can act
+
+independently of the conditions prevailing in the other great nations.
+This suggestion, coming, as it did, from a professional joker in England,
+has met with eager response from revolutionary emissaries now in your
+midst, supported by political fillibusters who are masking the truth.</p>
+
+<p>If England ever starts such a war she will lose India. Her direction of
+the reins of civilization in many quarters of the world would cease on the
+day hostilities began. But I am speaking for America.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span>A war with England would Russianize the United States within three months.
+Even if the navy could keep the enemy at a safe distance the destructive
+forces at home would loot the principal cities and spread terror from
+ocean to ocean.</p>
+
+<p>The first to lose in such an upheaval would be the wealthy propagandists
+of disorder and violence, who, living in security now, would be hurled
+with destructive force against the weapons of their own creation.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p>
+<h2>GENERAL BENJAMIN H. GRIERSON</h2>
+<p class="center"><span class="big">Late Commander of the Military Department of<br />Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico</span></p>
+
+<p>In 1914 western civilization was threatened by a military autocracy
+centralized at Berlin. Europe is now threatened by a communistic tyranny
+centralized at Moscow and by an autocratic aristocracy centered in Japan,
+anti-Christian, anti-democratic, anti-American. You may call it fate or
+destiny, it matters not so long as you know what the signs and portents
+are.</p>
+
+<p>We can see what is going on in the navy yards of the Nipponese Empire. We
+have noted the strenuous efforts put forth in naval preparations there.</p>
+
+<p>A Japanese Bonaparte will soon dominate China and prevent Christian
+propaganda throughout Asia. I could give you the dates fixed for certain
+maneuvers and events in connection with Japanese ambitions relating<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> to
+America, but they could change the dates. Suffice it to say they are
+making ready as fast as possible, much faster than many in this country
+could be made to believe. When the decisive moment arrives for action it
+will come suddenly, like the invasion of Belgium by the Germans.</p>
+
+<p>Here are some of their expectations:&mdash;</p>
+
+<p>The invasion of the coast of Mexico and a coalition of Japanese forces
+with some military faction in Mexico likely to be of practical aid, the
+bombing of American cities on the Pacific Coast from the air, virtual
+cessation of communication between certain sections east of the Rocky
+Mountains and California, brought about not so much by physical means as
+by revolutionary influences. They are counting on a Soviet revolution east
+of the Rockies while they are gaining a foothold in California.</p>
+
+<p>One of their first attempts would be to bomb the railway passes in the
+Cascades and the Sierra Nevadas.</p>
+
+<p>General Grant has warned you in regard to the Panama Canal and other
+points that need immediate attention. Millions would be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> alarmed if they
+could realize how much the Government at Washington resembles the British
+Government just before the German descent into Belgium. Are they waiting
+until they can spy the enemy through field glasses?</p>
+
+<p>I could give a map of the plans of approach of the Japanese navy, intended
+to operate in separate units, but it would do no good. They are ready to
+change their tactics at any time, and have done so more than once.</p>
+
+<p>Let me add that the bellicose attitude of the war party in Japan is such
+that a war between England and America would be hailed as a symbol of
+their divine destiny.</p>
+
+<p>Do not be surprised when I say that they proclaim the end of Christian
+civilization was reached when the Anglo-Saxons took possession of the
+Pacific Coast.</p>
+
+<p>In the Far East, British domination attained its zenith in India; in
+America, Anglo-Saxon influence attained its limit in California. The
+possession of the Pacific Coast of North America is, therefore, the limit
+for the dominant white race. The tocsin has<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span> sounded for a Japanese avatar
+who will unify the political, commercial and religious forces of Japan and
+China, give the coup de grace to a tottering civilization and dominate the
+world. So do they reason and preach.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p>
+<h2>ALEXANDER HAMILTON</h2>
+
+<p>What do the clouds on the social horizon predict? Is Nature a book of
+fate? If so, is it sealed or open? Whoever understands the political
+actions of the past can foresee the reactions of the future.</p>
+
+<p>Human nature is always the same.</p>
+
+<p>The two things brought to the surface by great upheavals are extreme
+virtues and extreme vices. The virtue of self sacrifice, on the one hand,
+the vice of self interest on the other. Vice is flexible, cunning,
+adaptable.</p>
+
+<p>You are living at a time when profiteers amaze by their cynical audacity,
+but profiteers have always existed. Before the war the nobles of Russia
+and Germany were profiteers in landed privileges and governmental
+perquisites. The tillers of the soil were free in name, serfs in practice.
+In England two or three hundred lords and peers possess the land. In
+America food profiteering began during the Civil War. This national vice
+has never been attacked at the roots.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span>Your age is characterized by a high level of predatory ability and a low
+level of prophetic visibility.</p>
+
+<p>The old hackneyed phrase, &#8220;This is a free country,&#8221; has been applied in
+varying degrees according to the caprice of the individual with the most
+aggressive will.</p>
+
+<p>New words, definitions, excuses, have been invented to meet the new
+conditions, but of all the words yet brought into use, &#8220;camouflage&#8221; is the
+only one that covers the cynical effrontery of predatory hypocrisy. It is
+a vocable of universal utility. It applies to the cock-pits of commerce as
+well as to the arena of bull and bear politics.</p>
+
+<p>It depicts a Hindoo patience in the pulpit and a Hoodoo palsy in the pews.</p>
+
+<p>The word &#8220;democracy&#8221; itself is the stripes painted on the sides of the old
+Ship of State in her zig-zag course to elude the torpedoes of the
+proletarian submarines.</p>
+
+<p>A capitalistic profiteer is a high brow optimist who lives by the sweat of
+the low brow pessimist. The stretching process will cease suddenly like
+the snapping of a rubber string stretched beyond the limit.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span>The masses without a voice always find articulation in the unlooked-for
+man, the unlooked-for group.</p>
+
+<p>The people without a mouthpiece are a mob, and no mob can run itself for
+more than a few days. It is the initiated who lead, and leadership
+requires time, patience, judgment.</p>
+
+<p>In the world of genius there are no upstarts.</p>
+
+<p>The great leader never rises suddenly. Bonaparte was a military graduate,
+Grant was a product of West Point, Lincoln was thirty years preparing for
+the Presidency, Lenine spent twenty years in the study of economics. All
+countries have the same experience.</p>
+
+<p>Voltaire endowed the middle classes of France with a voice, united the
+disaffected of all classes, and peppered their indignation with pungent
+epigrams. He created an intellectual garden for lovers of liberty, and
+from the realm of the mind flung the thorns of ridicule in the face of
+titled imbeciles and crowned the heads of scholars with laurel.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span>The people of France were washed by Louis XIV, wrung by Louis XV, and
+dried in the back yard of tyrannical economics by Louis XVI.</p>
+
+<p>But it was the orators and pamphleteers who ironed out the frills and
+furbelows of the old order.</p>
+
+<p>Statistical facts may convince but they do not compel. Who knows how the
+French Revolution would have ended had Mirabeau, orator of the great and
+solemn days, survived to put into action the idealism of Rousseau?
+Intellect alone never passes the halfway house. When intellect, reason and
+emotion are fused in one, the summit of achievement is attained.</p>
+
+
+<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr style="width: 50%;" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p>
+<h2>PHILLIPS BROOKS</h2>
+
+<p>The time for discipline is approaching. Happy are those who, under Divine
+direction, consent to be led, for, in the words of Quintilian:&mdash;Nulla
+poena est nisi invito, or as Seneca expressed it, Fata volentum ducunt,
+involentem trahunt,&mdash;those who refuse will be dragged.</p>
+
+<p>You must in some manner experience the ordeals common to other peoples,
+and you have seen from a distance what has overtaken many cities and
+nations, the inhabitants of which felt themselves as fixed as the rocks in
+the soil. Yet, all that is happening is in harmony with Divine law. You
+will find it in Isaiah and Jeremiah. The repetition is inevitable except
+for those who possess vision.</p>
+
+<p>The time for appeals is past.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth, the
+haughty people of the world do languish.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span>&#8220;When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled, and when thou
+shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously
+with thee.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Are the people astonished? Let them marvel at their own willfulness.</p>
+
+<p>&#8220;The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not
+have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into
+the gates of Jerusalem.&#8221;</p>
+
+<p>Titus, with his army, destroyed the Holy City. The enemy entered the gates
+from without but your adversaries have long been entrenched within.</p>
+
+<p>Mammon is heavily laden and will fall from the top. Material power is
+volatile.</p>
+
+<p>In the day of trial, the retainer and the hireling will seek a refuge,
+every man for himself. They will melt like the wax image before the heat
+of the furnace. On that day humility will be as a precious gift and
+poverty as a peace offering.</p>
+
+<p>Blessed is he who uses the spade and the hoe, for by the sweat of his brow
+he shall eat the bread of security.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+PSYCHO-PHONE MESSAGES
+
+RECORDED BY FRANCIS GRIERSON
+
+Spiritual Messages from the late General U. S. Grant, on Adequate
+Preparation in America; Thomas Jefferson, on the Future of American
+Democracy; Benjamin Disraeli, on English and Irish Affairs; Prince
+Bismarck, on the Indemnities; John Marshall, on the Psychology of the
+Supreme Court of the United States; Alexander Hamilton, on the Forces that
+Precede Revolution; Abraham Lincoln, on the Future of Mexico; Robert
+Ingersoll, on Our Great Women; Henry Ward Beecher, on the New Puritanism;
+Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, on President Harding; General B. H. Grierson, on
+Japan, Mexico and California, etc.
+
+
+
+
+  PSYCHO-PHONE
+  MESSAGES
+
+
+  RECORDED BY
+  FRANCIS GRIERSON
+
+
+  Published by
+  AUSTIN PUBLISHING COMPANY
+  Los Angeles, California
+
+
+
+
+  Copyright, June 1921
+  By B. F. Austin
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+The word "psycho-phone" was first suggested and used by Mr. Francis
+Grierson in a lecture I heard him deliver before the Toronto Theosophical
+Society, August 31st, 1919, a year before Thomas Edison announced his
+intention of devising an instrument which he hopes will serve to establish
+intercourse between our world and the world of spirit.
+
+My own experiences as a student in this sphere of psychic research in
+Europe and America, covering a period of thirty years, convince me that we
+have here a revelation of a new mode of spiritual communication unlike
+anything heretofore given to the world, not only different in quality but
+different in purpose.
+
+From personal knowledge I can state that the recorder of these messages
+has not acted on ideas advanced by anyone living on our plane.
+
+Looking back over the past two decades, I am led to believe that Mr.
+Grierson's predictions in "The Invincible Alliance," and in that startling
+poem, "The Awakening in Westminster Abbey," forecasting the war and the
+tragic events in Ireland, were spiritual and psycho-phonic in character.
+
+From 1909 to 1911 Francis Grierson was the acknowledged leading writer on
+"The New Age," of London, which at that time had as contributors, H. G.
+Wells, Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett, the two Chestertons, Hillaire
+Belloc--in one word, all the most prominent writers and advanced thinkers
+in Britain, yet not one of them except Mr. Grierson could see the
+approaching world upheaval.
+
+Early in 1909 he published a series of articles in that weekly depicting
+the coming war, and nothing of so drastic a nature had ever appeared in an
+English publication. In the spring of 1913 these articles were published
+in book form in London and New York under the title of "The Invincible
+Alliance."
+
+In the Westminster Abbey composition, published in "The New Age" in 1910,
+the characteristics of four personalities are plainly manifest--Coleridge,
+Milton, Shelley and Shakespeare--and I have not forgotten the sensation
+caused by this great work in London at the time of its appearance.
+
+Having had occasion to study the social and psychic conditions in France,
+Germany, Italy, Austria and England before the great war, and after having
+been an eye witness of scenes unique in the annals of musical inspiration
+in the artistic and literary circles of Europe as well as the most
+intellectual of the royal courts, in which Mr. Grierson was the central
+figure, I now have a better understanding of the work he accomplished and
+its far-reaching import. The more complex the work the longer must be the
+preparation, and we are now confronted with what will appear to many as
+the most interesting phase of Mr. Grierson's psychic gifts, for the seer
+who ushered in the new mystical movement by the publication of "Modern
+Mysticism" in 1899 is now the recorder of messages which must induce
+thinking and unprejudiced minds to pause and consider such matters in a
+new light, and it is to be hoped that many more messages like these may
+be recorded by the same hand.
+
+As I write, I have before me a unique collection of letters written to Mr.
+Grierson by men and women eminent in philosophy, art, music, literature
+and journalism, in Europe and America. Among the letters that Mr. Grierson
+values the most in this remarkable album are eight from members of the
+French Academy, with Sully Prudhomme, winner of the first Noble Prize,
+heading the list. Which reminds me that I heard him say one evening in
+Paris, after hearing Mr. Grierson's music: "You have placed me on the
+threshold of the other world. There are not words in the French language
+to express what I have felt tonight!" Up to that moment the famous
+Academician had been known as an avowed agnostic.
+
+Maeterlinck writes that the first Grierson volume (in French) influenced
+him more than any book he had ever read. There are four letters from the
+Belgian mystic.
+
+This album is filled with expressions from the most authoritative minds in
+literature and art, as well as statesmen, soldiers and diplomats, such as
+Jules Simon, the Duc de Broglie, Lord Lytton, British ambassador at Paris;
+Lord Reading, British ambassador at Washington; Field Marshall Lord
+Wolseley, General B. H. Grierson, U.S.A., leading members of the Bonaparte
+family in Paris, Prince Henri of Orleans (son of Louis Philippe), Princess
+Eulalia of Spain, and crowned heads who gave receptions in Mr. Grierson's
+honor during the past thirty years. There are letters from distinguished
+Americans, such as Col. Henry Watterson (who wrote two long editorials on
+Mr. Grierson in the Louisville "Courier Journal"), Henry Mills Alden,
+editor of "Harper's Monthly," Prof. William James, Marion Reedy, Edwin
+Markham, Edith Thomas, Mary Austin, and many leading professors of
+Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin
+and California.
+
+Edwin Bjorkman says, in his "Voices of Tomorrow":--
+
+"To Francis Grierson belongs the honor of having first attained to
+prophetic vision of the common goal. In his first volume, published in
+Paris in 1889, he suggested every idea which since then has become
+recognized as essential not only to Bergson and Maeterlinck but to the
+constantly increasing number of writers engaged in making the time
+conscious of its own spirit. As we read essay after essay it is as if we
+beheld the globe of life revolving slowly between us and some unknown
+source of light."
+
+The following remarks from the London "Outlook" seem to me pertinent to
+the subject:--
+
+"Grierson is an Englishman, for he was born in Cheshire; Scotland may
+justly claim him in that he is a direct descendent of Sir Robert Grierson,
+the famous Laird of Lag, who is the hero of Scott's novel, 'The Red
+Gauntlet'; that America has had a part in the making of him all readers of
+that wonderful book, 'The Valley of Shadows,' know; France can claim him
+since he began his musical career in Paris and published his first book in
+French; but no special country can claim to have developed his
+genius--that is cosmopolitan."
+
+As "Current Opinion" says, in a long study: "He presents a unique
+combination of thinker, writer, artist and musician who owes nothing to
+any school or any master or system of training; and his experience is
+without a parallel in the intellectual world of our day."
+
+LAWRENCE WALDEMAR TONNER,
+
+
+  245-1/2 So. Spring St.
+    Los Angeles, California.
+
+
+
+
+FOREWORD
+
+
+These messages were begun in September, 1920, and the last was recorded in
+May, 1921. I little dreamed that many of the predictions set forth would
+be verified so soon. For names, in themselves, count for nothing. The
+subliminal mind may assume different names on different occasions. A
+message is of value exactly in proportion to the information imparted.
+
+The first communication from General Grant was recorded September ninth.
+It is peremptory in tone, and contains a warning touching the insecurity
+of the Panama Canal. In November Mr. Harding made a tour of inspection and
+found the fortifications of the Canal inadequate. I then decided on the
+publication of these messages.
+
+They deal with the actual. Take, for example, John Marshall's documents,
+which are filled with warnings no reader with intelligence will attempt to
+refute, Disraeli's indictment of English statesmanship in recent times,
+Lincoln's utterances on affairs in Europe and Mexico, General Grant on
+Preparation, Benjamin Franklin on the Privilege of Liberty, Bishop
+Phillips Brooks on the Coming Ordeals, to name but a few.
+
+As a Judge sums up, regardless of who may or may not agree, a decision is
+rendered according to the vision of the one who delivers the message.
+Principle, not Party, is the basis of judgment.
+
+Witness Disraeli's remark that the blunders committed by the British
+Parliament would have been impossible in an Irish Parliament in Dublin.
+
+In a series of articles in "Nash's Magazine" Mr. Basil King suggests that
+"the means of communication with the plane next above us may be through
+the everlasting doors which the subliminal opens upward. Through these
+doors the mind may go up and out; through these doors the light may come
+in and down."
+
+In our group of investigators we have had the perseverence essential for
+serious development, and, as in all demonstrations, whether physical or
+psychical, everything depends on conditions, so we have had periods of
+weeks when no message of any kind was received.
+
+A striking feature of these communications is their freedom from restraint
+imposed by popular opinion. They contain neither theories nor appeals.
+Warnings are uttered concerning events and their inevitable reactions.
+
+The psycho-phonic waves, by which the messages are imparted, are as
+definite as those received by wireless methods.
+
+FRANCIS GRIERSON.
+
+Los Angeles, California
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+                                                              PAGE
+
+  Introduction                                                   5
+
+  Foreword                                                      13
+
+  Thomas Reed, of Maine, Late Speaker of the House, on the
+  Peace League                                                  21
+
+  General U. S. Grant, on Adequate Preparation in America       24
+
+  General U. S. Grant (second message)                          27
+
+  Thomas Jefferson, on the Future of American Democracy         30
+
+  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, on the Future of American Women       33
+
+  Benjamin Franklin, on the Privilege of Liberty                43
+
+  John Marshall, "The Expounder of the Constitution," on the
+  Psychology of the Supreme Court                               46
+
+  Daniel Webster, on "Bohemian" Statesmen                       47
+
+  Oliver Wendell Holmes, on the New Eden                        49
+
+  Benjamin Wade, Late Governor of Ohio, U. S. Senator, on
+  President Harding                                             51
+
+  Don Piatt, Late Editor of "The Capital," Washington,
+  D. C., on Prohibition and the Blue Laws                       55
+
+  Benjamin Disraeli, on English and Irish Affairs               58
+
+  Prince Bismarck, on Germany and the Indemnities               63
+
+  Henry Ward Beecher, on the New Puritanism                     70
+
+  John Marshall, on Liberty and the League (second message)     74
+
+  Abraham Lincoln, on the Future of Mexico                      79
+
+  Robert Ingersoll, on Our Great Women                          82
+
+  Stephen A. Douglass, on War Between England and America       83
+
+  General B. H. Grierson, on Japan and California               85
+
+  Alexander Hamilton, on the Forces that Precede Revolution     89
+
+  Phillips Brooks, on The Coming Ordeals                        93
+
+
+
+
+Psycho-phone Messages
+
+
+
+
+THOMAS B. REED
+
+(Late Speaker of the House)
+
+Recorded September seventh, 1920.
+
+
+The formidable imbecility of the Senate rivaled the fantastic irritability
+of the President.
+
+Born with a Utopian temperament, Mr. Wilson has a Herculean passion for
+generalities and a Lilliputian penchant for details.
+
+You scratched the Teutons at Versailles and found a new species of Tartar;
+you scratched the Japanese and found a Pacifist camouflage; you scratched
+the Poles and found a pianist with his hair uncut; you scratched the
+French and found a tiger with his claws unclipped. Your mania for
+scratching other nations will keep your nails manicured without the aid of
+scissors.
+
+Never since the Declaration of Independence and the first peal of the
+Liberty Bell did a chief executive walk up a winding stair into so pretty
+a parlor as when Mr. Wilson, with the naivete of a Princeton president,
+faced that cacophony of sectional jazz bands to witness the cryptic
+hand-writing on the wall at the peace table. Who was his adviser? Was it a
+gentleman with owl spectacles from the oil fields of Texas? And was there
+no one who could have cautioned him against the finesse of Clemenceau who
+spent sixty years sharpening his wits on the political grindstone of
+Europe? Was no one in America aware that the French Premier is a fluent
+speaker in English?
+
+Mr. Wilson could speak no French, which reminds me that Jack Spratt could
+eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean, and so betwixt them both they
+licked the platter clean. But a clean plate does not mean a clean slate,
+and the President brought one home filled with the riddle of the Sphinx.
+Yet the Peace Conference revealed the secret of perpetual motion and
+conferred a timely service, for the hubbub created by the
+Wilson-Lansing-House-Party at Versailles kept the Senate from passing into
+a trance.
+
+A blind man can tell the difference between pepper pods and apple
+dumplings, but who can tell where tweedle-dee ends and tweedle-dum begins?
+No one. Then how can your statesmen distinguish between the psychological
+characteristics of the Hungarians and the Bohemians, the Bavarians and the
+Saxons, the difference between a polka and a polonaise, a pig in a stye
+and a pig in a slaughter house?
+
+Patriotism often depends on an influence too subtle for analysis, and yet
+they would enact drastic laws to bind all Europe in one bond. They will
+hardly succeed in a thousand years.
+
+Some pay through the nose, some through the pocket and some through the
+stomach. Americans are paying through all three. Danton declared the
+secret of the French Revolution was audacity, and audacity, and again
+audacity, but what you need today is vigilance repeated ad infinitum.
+
+I am placing you in communication with some of the most far-reaching minds
+of the past hundred and fifty years. The psycho-phone is new and we are
+using it for the first time.
+
+
+
+
+THE LATE GENERAL U. S. GRANT
+
+Recorded September Ninth, 1920
+
+
+The imbroglio started by President Carranza is beginning to influence the
+politicians of Buenos Ayres and other centers in South America. They have
+secretly repudiated the Monroe Doctrine. Their next maneuver will be a
+public repudiation.
+
+I would say to Congress, stop juggling with phrases and attend to the
+business of the hour. The majority have been chasing shadows in a sphere
+of politics illumined by moonshine bottled in the Blue Ridge. I was more
+careful of my brand. When President Lincoln asked for the label, so he
+could recommend it to other generals, he was not far wrong in his
+surmises. It is not so much the thing as the quality that counts. Most of
+you at Washington will have to learn the difference between inhibition and
+prohibition.
+
+The United States will be isolated within three years from this date if
+the blowhards from the woolly constituencies are not suppressed. You need
+a broncho buster in the Senate and a donkey muzzler in the House.
+
+When a boycott is started by the countries south of the Union your enemies
+in Europe will begin to act. It is not a question of commerce but of
+common sense. I repeat what Lincoln said in 1862: "The times are dark and
+the spirits of ruin are abroad in all their power."
+
+My message to Congress is: See that fifty thousand troops are stationed
+permanently near the District of Columbia.
+
+My message to the Governors of New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois is: Get
+ready! The troops on the borders of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona are
+inadequate. The fortifications of the Panama and at San Diego and San
+Pedro are inadequate. You are in the same condition the French were in
+previous to 1789, when the motto was, "After us the Deluge." The Deluge
+came but it did not consist of water.
+
+Our foes of the old Germany and the new Russia count on crippling the
+United States through South America, with the aid of Japan; but he who
+delivers the first blow will be the victor.
+
+The Germans still believe they can eventually invade France, enter Paris
+and cause a revolution, found a new empire to include France, Belgium,
+Holland and Switzerland, with Italy later on. This dream includes a
+practical understanding with Soviet Russia, which, by that time, they
+expect would be weary of futile experiments. Plots will be exposed that
+will make it apparent how vain some of your optimistic surmises have been.
+Diplomats who are not psychologists will be balked by developments in
+Switzerland, that nation having become the rendezvous of disillusioned
+wire-pullers without a country.
+
+You are now at the cross roads. Take the wrong turning and you will come
+to the skull and cross bones.
+
+I could say much more but we are not yet experts in this new mode of
+inter-communication and must be brief.
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL U. S. GRANT.
+
+(Second Message)
+
+Recorded May Third, 1921
+
+
+I concur with Alexander Stephens when he says: "Congress has never been so
+supine and so serpentine."
+
+Millions are sent to the people of distant countries in no way related to
+our Government or people, and yet Congress permits thousands of veterans
+of the great war to continue in a state of neglect, suffering and
+humiliation.
+
+Do the authorities believe that when the day of trial arrives the friends
+and relatives of these veterans will hurry to volunteer for active
+service? The country is being fascinated by incidents and events in
+far-off regions, and the tragic conditions at home have entered a chronic
+stage.
+
+There are too many old men in Congress--men who never did more than fight
+grasshoppers or watch a game of football from reserved seats.
+
+We do not like the looks of the President's pronunciamento. It contains
+too many side issues. He is making Mr. Wilson's mistake of being verbose.
+Mr. Wilson tried to hypnotize Europe; the Senate is trying to hypnotize
+Mr. Harding. Popularity breeds as much contempt as familiarity. No
+President can ever succeed in conciliating all classes, sections and
+parties.
+
+The politicians of Buenos Ayres have now spoken as I predicted in my first
+message. They have attacked Mr. Harding for his speech on Pan-Americanism,
+all which goes to prove that the President is repeating for South America
+Mr. Wilson's blunders in France.
+
+Remember what Lincoln said to Judge Whitney:--
+
+"Those fellows think I don't see anything, but I see all around them. I
+see better what they want to do with me than they do themselves."
+
+The politicians of South America see better what the President wants to do
+with them than he does himself.
+
+The administration will face a critical period in the early fall. There
+will be a break in the dominant phalanx. A social and political
+readjustment will compel mediation in quarters the most unexpected.
+
+The new political and commercial dispensation for the English-speaking
+countries will begin on September twenty-second at two P.M.
+
+
+
+
+THOMAS JEFFERSON
+
+
+Few politicians understand the difference between scene-shifting and
+progress. Things shift, new names are applied, but the vicious circle
+continues.
+
+I see no evidence that human nature has changed since my time, in this or
+any other country.
+
+If the Republican Ship of State is leaking, the Democratic craft is
+drifting without sail or rudder. What your statesmen fail to understand is
+that progress is not induced by force but by free will. New political
+planks rammed into your platforms against the wishes of the majority are
+without significance. The phrase, "The Solid South," which meant something
+vital at one time, has no meaning in these days of quick change and
+movie-show influences.
+
+Democracy, in some sections, is a matter of climate. If you have come to a
+point where science and sentimentality are engaged in a drastic war, then
+the Democratic phalanx must undergo some rude changes.
+
+The Democratic tail wagged the Republican dog for some time, but that
+curious spectacle has lost its hold on public interest. It is not now a
+question of one end wagging the other, but who will wag both. If
+Republicans stand for crude force, and Democrats for antebellum
+sentimentality, both are doomed together.
+
+In the South, Democracy means politics at the polls, aristocracy in the
+parlor. In the North, Republicanism means the aristocracy of wealth.
+
+However, your conception of social equality is undergoing modification.
+
+In Washington's time the slogan was revolution; in Lincoln's time it was
+abolition; in your time it is prohibition, which reminds me that laws
+passed in haste bring long periods of repentance.
+
+Effective effrontery is the result of courageous ignorance, for millions
+are more easily influenced by illusive promises than by the lessons of
+experience.
+
+Modern civilization has hurried to meet four deadly things--riches,
+pleasures, materialism and war. But the tortoise is a better example of
+progress than the hare fleeing before the greyhound.
+
+
+
+
+ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
+
+
+It appalls the normal mind to stop and consider the criminal blunders made
+by the educated Prussian and the educated Englishman prior to 1914. No
+statesman had the vision to see what was going to happen to the man-made
+world.
+
+Since it is a question of intuition and feeling versus cold reason and
+business logic, let us see which side is the more vital and all-enduring.
+Let us consider for a brief space what it is that influences people. Let
+us consider the influence exerted by the arts. What is music? Emotion
+created by sound vibrations. What is dramatic acting? Emotion created by
+vocal vibrations combined with gesture and physical movement. Has anyone
+ever witnessed automatic acting that left a profound impression?
+
+Orators become famous when they unite deep feeling with knowledge. But
+what gives expression? The power of awakening emotion in others. Feeling
+is always more convincing than intellect. Intellect is full of theories,
+notions and superstitions. But where you find deep feeling combined with
+knowledge, you will find reason directed by qualities which pass through
+the surface and attain the heart-throbs of the real.
+
+There are many kinds of emotion. There is the hard emotion of anger, the
+confused emotion of fear, the painful emotion of jealousy, the
+indescribable emotion of despair, the radiant emotion of joy. But the
+greatest emotion of all is that of knowledge united to feeling.
+
+Men, as a rule, speak of emotion as a weakness, and they confuse it with
+impulse--a very different thing. Impulse is often the result of weak
+nerves, uncontrolled by the will; but we must not confuse it with the
+emotional quality which underlies all great achievement in art,
+literature, philosophy and personality. The more impulsive the individual
+is, the more primitive the reasoning faculty.
+
+English and American business men are limited in general knowledge. I have
+never been able to discover any distinctive difference between the two.
+In France and Italy many business men are able to discuss art, literature
+and music on the same level with the masters. The Latin races and the
+Celtic races possess a culture that can be traced back for two or three
+thousand years, but Anglo-Saxon culture only to the time of the Saxon
+invasion. The Anglo-Saxons were the mushrooms of our civilization. They
+were a stolid business people who lacked creative genius.
+
+The outstanding intellect of England today is Celtic. The Scotch, the
+Irish and the Welsh combine emotion and power with tenacity of purpose,
+and it is this Celtic element that keeps America in the front rank of
+nations.
+
+What women have been opposing is the primitive monotony of the Anglo-Saxon
+trend. It has meant a mixture of politics and commerce so primitive and so
+naive that Frenchmen are amazed when they visit America and note the
+striking difference between the culture of the women and the mentality of
+the average man.
+
+One of your great mystics has said: "The chemical constituents of human
+bodies is the same. The ashes of a saint and the ashes of a sinner give
+the same chemical results. As human bodies they are the same, but their
+functions separate them and make them totally different, so that the
+difference cannot by any hocus-pocus of metaphysics or magic be bridged or
+spanned."
+
+Two things of the same material are really different if their functions
+are different. The real substance of a thing is in its function. We have
+to judge people by the things they do, not by their appearance; for there
+is no clear understanding between two persons whose aims are different.
+This is why there are so many divorces. This is why so many intellectual
+women live separate lives from their husbands in the same house.
+
+People seem to be similar and equal but they differ according to their
+functions. If we take a philosopher, a hangman and a sailor who appear to
+be equal as human beings we shall see that in their functions there is
+nothing in common. The souls of these men are different in the very
+nature, origin and purpose of their existence.
+
+Thousands of people move in a world of material shadows while their souls,
+the substance of which is intellectual and spiritual, inhabit a sphere
+absolutely apart. Especially is this the case with many of the cultured
+women of our time who are compelled to live a double life. Their
+intellects are far removed from the ordinary pursuits of the commercial
+world.
+
+A woman of spiritual culture who marries a commercial man has married a
+shadow. A woman of high ideals who marries a professional politician has
+hitched her motor car to a meteor. A romantic woman married to a
+multi-millionaire whose world is bound in liberty bonds loses her liberty.
+A metaphysical woman who marries a financier is handicapped by the
+physical.
+
+A union of spiritual functions with material formulas is impossible, for
+there is no way in which mere sensation can be made to harmonize with the
+higher emotions.
+
+The new era of woman, which is just beginning to dawn, will direct
+education; and through education, politics; through politics, the progress
+of nations. Heretofore, the commercial and political world had a free
+hand. The progressive element was confined to a limited number of men in
+the colleges and the ministry, together with a remnant of law-makers. But
+their influence was negative owing to lack of material support.
+
+Women will now present a formidable force in numbers, backed by a
+spiritual power, aided by men who understand the difference between
+functions and appearance, sensuous desires and ideal emotions.
+
+For years I maintained that women do not realize the power they possess.
+They live so much in a world of their own that they do not regard the
+man-made commercial world as worth elevating.
+
+Thousands of men are living in a sphere some degrees below the normal.
+They have been surrounded from the beginning with influences that
+obliterate all the higher faculties of the mind.
+
+It has taken woman some centuries to rise to power, but the work is only
+half done. Never can the commercial instinct and the intellectual ideal be
+made to harmonize. The two spheres of consciousness are totally distinct.
+
+The modern intellect has been organized without considering the moral
+meaning of its activity. This has caused the delusion that the crowning
+glory of European culture is the dreadnaught. Ninety per cent of all
+modern inventions are for bodily destruction or bodily comfort. While the
+body lolls in luxury, the spirit is soused in lethargy.
+
+As Ouspensky says, we have created two lives--one material, the other
+spiritual. I believe this is owing to the fact that man is living and
+working in the material and woman in the spiritual. In other words, she is
+carrying her own responsibilities on one shoulder and man's baneful
+burdens on the other. The figure of Atlas holding up the Globe should be
+changed to that of a female.
+
+One would think that in these days, when psychology is taught even to
+children, that a man who has lived forty years in the world of action
+would know better than to boast of his eternal activities. The word "busy"
+has grown to be a veritable fetish with thousands who have little or
+nothing to do. The truth is, most men are not half as busy as they seem
+and not more than a fourth as wise as they look.
+
+We have to find out by exact analysis just what incentive lies behind
+people's actions. What makes the distinction is the quality of our acts.
+Everything in the material and the spiritual worlds is judged according to
+quality. Gold, diamonds, clothes, bricks, music, poetry, literature, are
+adjudged, in the last resort, on the basis of intrinsic value. When people
+are engaged in pursuits for the sake of money the results will be on a
+plane with the quality of the incentive.
+
+In the work done by women in the past fifty years in this country, the
+incentive has been of a higher quality than that shown by men.
+
+While men introduced a coarse realism into the novel, women saved the
+situation by new ideals. I do not think there would be much left worth
+reading today but for woman's taste and judgment.
+
+In the world of intellect and emotion things hang together. A low plane of
+intellect will produce low impulses. The more we know the greater our
+control of the different sense organs. Nothing can happen without a
+corresponding cause behind it.
+
+The hysteria so common at great political conventions is caused by the
+exceedingly limited intelligence of the managers and directors who labor
+under the illusion that blind impulse is tantamount to vision. In other
+words, where the critical faculties are not developed anything can happen.
+And it is not difficult to predict that when political conventions are
+swayed by hysterical temperaments the authority at the White House will
+have all he can do to steer the Ship of State through the troubled waters
+of impulse and confusion.
+
+There is a will to power that is blind. There is another will to power
+that brings the higher emotions to bear on the lower impulses, controls
+and directs the organs of sense.
+
+The people who elect a President are the ones who will influence his
+actions. And when we talk about a President being a good man for business
+we are compelled to seek for the reason behind the statement.
+
+If finance lands a President at the White House, women, children, teachers
+and philosophers must shift for themselves, since the supreme test lies in
+function, and not in manners, words and looks. And finance means finesse.
+
+Do not expect great innovations at the Capitol until a strong woman takes
+her seat at the White House; and by this I do not mean one of Barnum's
+bearded ladies.
+
+Conservatism is a good thing when it is coupled with vision and judgment,
+but bear in mind that monotony and mediocrity start in the same groove,
+run at the same pace and arrive at the same grave.
+
+
+
+
+BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
+
+
+There is but one mark of patriotism and that is vigilance and enthusiasm.
+The cause of your trouble is the sincerity with which your foes think and
+act and the lukewarm sentiment shown by Americans. The reason is to be
+found in the comfort and luxury of the present day compared with the
+pioneer sacrifices of your fathers and grandfathers. Your opponents are
+vindictive as well as vigilant. They mean what they say and do what they
+will. They are working as individuals, as well as in groups and parties,
+but Americans who inherited the land with liberty are exchanging both for
+the license of the maw.
+
+When school teachers and farm hands are permitted to leave the country for
+the city, the end is not so far off as your sophisticated solons of the
+State Capitols would lead you to suppose.
+
+I once stated that three movings equal one fire, and I can say now that
+the lack of teachers and farm hands has resulted in a damage equal to one
+revolution. No calamity comes and goes single handed. The world, the flesh
+and the devil are a triumvirate bound together by ties of consanguinity.
+Your school teachers are passing over to the world, your farm laborers to
+the flesh, and your ministers to the devil.
+
+You are browsing on the stubble. One delinquency involves another, and
+eventually the monetary capital of the nation may be reduced to that of
+France. The nation will awake one day to the disillusioning fact that
+peace and progress cannot be gauged by commercial prosperity alone. For
+without food what avails your steel, your oil and your gold?
+
+If you could witness the mortification poor Andrew Carnegie is now
+undergoing because of his lack of vision, you would have a lesson not soon
+forgotten. He built libraries but furnished no books to fill them. It was
+like building houses without windows. When leading business men commit
+such folly what can you expect of the nation at large?
+
+The three things most needed by the people are food, raiment and shelter.
+The next three are instruction, religion and discipline. Liberty is a
+privilege; it comes after all the others. The individual has no rights
+inimical to those of the collective conscience.
+
+Until you learn this fundamental maxim, all your knowledge will prove but
+a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
+
+The nations are rattling over the cobble stones of bankruptcy on a
+buckboard of compromise, on the high road to revolution.
+
+
+
+
+JOHN MARSHALL
+
+(The Expounder of the Constitution)
+
+Recorded October, 1920
+
+
+Some recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States are, more
+than any other factor, calculated to develop and foster an element of
+national unrest. Its deliberations are beyond the intelligence of many and
+above the interests of the majority. Its psychology is that of a divorce
+between capital and labor. Its rulings remind me of what transpired in
+England early in the nineteenth century.
+
+Many who were not socialists are beginning to turn from the older order,
+imbued with the feeling that nothing could happen in the future worse for
+the country at large than the conditions that are being endured in the
+present.
+
+A revolution arrives after a series of connected events which exhausts the
+patience of the public, and events are moving with intensity as well as
+rapidity.
+
+
+
+
+DANIEL WEBSTER
+
+
+You will search the pages of history in vain without finding a parallel to
+present conditions.
+
+The war gave Bohemia her freedom; at the same time it licensed a bohemian
+poet to keep Italy stewing in her own juice, a bohemian journalist from
+New York to direct affairs in Moscow, and a bohemian socialist from
+Switzerland to rule over Russia.
+
+Added to this a fashionable ladies' pianist has tried his hand, or should
+I say fingers, in the science of unfurling the sails of Poland's new Ship
+of State, while shop-keepers direct affairs in Germany and pusilanimous
+politicians keep the people of America in a state of tepid trepidation and
+flatulent turmoil. Can you wonder that the country is being hypnotized by
+the sight of so many cantankerous cataleptics?
+
+Macbeth declared he had waded in so far that returning would be as
+perilous as going on. Nothing will move them until they are swamped by
+the high tide of reaction and flung as flotsam on the rocks of a stormy
+opportunism.
+
+A new Damocles has a sword suspended over the National Capitol, and
+liberty hangs to the hinges of the Constitution by a hair.
+
+
+
+
+OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
+
+
+While a few people are ready to return to first principles, many are
+giving expressions to Garden of Eden proclivities. But instead of the old
+Eve, you have the new Amazon; instead of the old serpent, copperheads in
+Congress; instead of the old Adam, fresh brands of bluebeards.
+
+Agreeable to the apple of the new Adam's eye and the fruitarian diet of
+the new Eden, some ladies have adopted the fig-leaf standard. But let that
+pass for the moment, always bearing in mind that he who loses his sense of
+humor loses his equilibrium.
+
+Millions of people are dancing their legs off to keep their heads on.
+
+Providence is wiser than the moralists.
+
+There was a way out of the trenches and there is a way out of the
+pessimism developed by the dying dispensation. It is not so much a
+question of keeping your powder dry as it is of keeping your wits from
+congealing.
+
+Beware of nebulous notions and theories. Uncanny kinks lead to calamitous
+brain storms. A stitch in the side saves nine--kicks behind the solar
+plexus.
+
+
+
+
+BENJAMIN WADE
+
+(Late Governor of Ohio--U. S. Senator)
+
+
+Viewed in the light that shines on the White House, there is no difference
+between a man from Ohio and a gentleman from Indiana.
+
+Men from the pumpkin pie districts think and feel alike, judging world
+politics by the yard-stick method that prevailed in their villages when
+they were young men. They are not always aware that political ruts cause
+social ructions.
+
+The all-wool-and-a-yard-wide politician was home-spun and honestly
+patriotic, but what you need is a home-spun thinker whose vision has got
+beyond the yard-stick measure and can take in the whole world.
+
+An old-school president, at this juncture, will have little more authority
+than a Congo king would have at a conference of jurists in Paris.
+
+Has anyone taken the trouble to find out just what distinguishes the
+minority from the majority?
+
+While the home-spun politician was eating cookies and buckwheat cakes made
+by his mother in the Middle West, some millions in New York, Chicago,
+Cleveland, and other foreign centers, were partaking of wienerwurst,
+sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and rye bread, and clinking beer glasses,
+according to the custom of Continental Europe.
+
+If we say that a statesman represents Americanism, the question arises
+what kind of Americanism? The Yankee, the Southerner, each had his place
+in the political economy of America from 1776 to the Emancipation
+Proclamation in 1863, and even up to the Cleveland Administration, after
+which conditions began to change with startling rapidity, when the
+children born of foreign parents were beginning to come of age and the
+European ferment began to leaven the lumps of sectional dough.
+
+The man who occupies the White House in 1921 should take Time by the
+forelock and the profiteer with the padlock, know how to translate "Es
+ist verboten" into Russian, and say, "Get thee behind me, Satan," in
+Esperanto.
+
+If honesty, alone, is the best and only policy, our country would be safe,
+but honesty is only one of the qualities necessary in these days to carry
+a President through the mazes of a complex administration. Honesty does
+not always imply clear vision or even ordinary common sense. The faculties
+of diplomatic tact and political judgment are infinitely more important,
+and experience still more so.
+
+In America the roles enacted by professional politicians remind one of a
+masquerade where everyone is trying to penetrate behind the masks and
+guessing is the rule. If in this heterogeneous ball-room you slap your
+partner on the back, you may elicit a grunt from a grouchy bolshevik or a
+groan from a disgruntled "bohemian."
+
+And yet Congress enacts laws for Americans who understand no dialect but
+their own and who have to engage interpreters when they visit Paris. How
+many wealthy Americans realize that these United States have outgrown the
+cookie era, the buckwheat pancake era, the corn cob era, the wooden nutmeg
+era, and arrived at the root-hog-or-die era?
+
+Young America today no more resembles the young America of thirty years
+ago than a butterfly resembles a caterpillar. Young men and women are
+sixty per cent cosmopolitan and forty per cent rebel.
+
+During the next five years the number of young people who will insist on
+thinking for themselves will increase two-fold, because in that time many
+thousands of children born of foreign parents in America will have become
+mature enough to have fixed upon some sort of ideal.
+
+Congress will realize the situation when it is too late for regrets to be
+of any service. Which calls to mind a story apropos of this pressing
+subject: A landlady, having no means of obtaining meat for her boarders,
+made a stew out of a litter of kittens. The truth became known in a day or
+two. One of the boarders said the very thought made her sick, to which the
+landlady replied: "Feeling sick won't do no good; them kittens has all
+been digested."
+
+
+
+
+DON PIATT
+
+(Late Editor of "The Capital," Washington, D. C.)
+
+
+Where are the debaters whose rapier tongues ripped up the rag dolls of
+Congress and kept the floor of the House supplied with fresh saw-dust,
+whose fantastic fencing and heart-piercing thrusts were the delight of the
+gallery and the terror of fire eaters. Gone, gone where the woodbine
+twineth. What went they out for to see? A reed shaken by the wind? There
+is a difference in reeds. Tom Reed of Maine shook the House, but the House
+never shook him. What were his favorite drinks? There was plenty to choose
+from in the Washington of his day. But note the difference between the wit
+of the Maine Reed and that of the Missouri Reed.
+
+On the other hand, where did Bryan get the "cross of gold" inspiration in
+the old days? Did he do it on tannic acid released from tea leaves? Who
+will ever know? One thing is certain--he never again rose to the same
+level.
+
+Is our planet revolving toward a second edition of puritanism? Probably.
+The esprit de corps that animated the body politic begins to resemble a
+corpse with the esprit evaporated.
+
+The human mind needs moments of exaltation as well as relaxation.
+Brilliant results are not produced by lukewarm sentiments expressed in a
+voice that lacks enthusiasm.
+
+Washington is now a resort for celluloid cynics and a refuge for asbestos
+patriots whose marmorian snobbery makes me think of the ruins of temples
+abandoned by the gods and forgotten by man.
+
+The great blunder of the prohibitionists was made when they condemned beer
+and light wine. Nature abhors abruptness. Progress is not made by sudden
+jerks and violent laws passed in a hurry.
+
+If a few persons living in an obscure village in Ohio can bring about a
+movement like prohibition, the same influence can bring about a return of
+the old Connecticut blue laws.
+
+Violent actions are followed by violent reactions. From this there is no
+escape.
+
+The fundamental objection to prohibition, as it stands, lies in the cold
+fact that provincialism, no matter how sincere, can never compete with
+international common sense and cosmopolitan culture.
+
+Village residents are ignorant of the laws that govern society in the most
+intelligent centers of the world. What will be the result in the long run?
+Antagonism between the people of the cities and the people of the country.
+
+When they prohibit tobacco, a war of cuss words will be followed by a
+battle of cuspidors, and the very crows will cuss the crocuses.
+
+
+
+
+BENJAMIN DISRAELI
+
+
+Some Members of Parliament have lost their reason, the majority have lost
+their wits, all are without vision.
+
+Lloyd George presents the curious spectacle of a man of the people who
+observes them through the glasses of a Welsh Calvinist. He is a democrat
+with the demeanor of a lord, a radical who has fallen between the two
+stools of the middle-class and the landed aristocracy. Nonconformist
+sentimentality, on one hand, and titled wealth on the other, have blinded
+him to the imperative needs of the time and the dangers that confront the
+Empire.
+
+The English people of the past twenty years have suffered as much from
+misgovernment as the Germans and the Russians, but they cannot stop the
+present stream of progress by clatter in the House and appeals to
+patriotism.
+
+For years England has been saddled with cabinets composed of professional
+humorists and hum-drum moralists.
+
+Augustine Birrell was a diluted edition of Sydney Smith, and Bonar Law
+should have been a professor of theology in a Presbyterian seminary. Sir
+Edward Carson played the role of an unfrocked priest in the service of
+demiurgos. Earl Curzon is a political derelict whose presence in the
+Council Chamber prevents unity and impedes progress.
+
+History will record their acts as the most amazing in the annals of Great
+Britain. I see nothing for the old order but unconditional surrender. The
+hand-writing on the wall was visible in 1909, but no preparation was made
+for the change which is now sweeping the country with cyclonic force.
+
+We, from our side, can do no more than utter some words of warning for the
+few who have ears to hear, the tidal wave of change not being confined to
+particular countries or regions.
+
+I, too, when Prime Minister, was blind to the reality, having been born
+and reared in an atmosphere as foreign to that of the masses as the
+atmosphere of the Winter Palace was foreign to the peasants of Russia.
+
+We staggered under the load of a wealthy and titled upper class. They
+consumed the people's time and imposed infinite misery on some millions of
+toilers, and for these things we rewarded the men at the top with fresh
+titles.
+
+As you know, I led the Conservative Party in England for many years, but
+that Party was, and still is, avid for power.
+
+The Liberal Party was made up of men using Nonconformity as an instrument
+of advancement. They placed opportunity above the truth, position above
+principle, power above progress. We were all intellectual automatons, set
+in motion by springs wound up by leaders who were themselves automatons.
+
+England goes by machinery. Her very existence is mechanical. Now, when a
+loose screw stops the evolution of the wheels, the whole nation stops.
+
+In what way can we be said to excel in probity of conduct the people of
+Ireland? In what way are we superior to Irish politicians? The scandals
+that occurred in London during the war would not have been tolerated in
+Dublin under an Irish Parliament. And still England is being led by a
+Welsh Calvinist, opposed by a Scottish humorist who says his prayers,
+backed by Anglican agnostics and middle-class dissenters overwhelmed with
+fear.
+
+We always imitate the French, but while we accepted Voltairianism in
+principle, the French had the courage to put it into practice.
+
+While the French became practical pagans in 1789, we became practical
+hypocrites.
+
+It is this element that has created the moral indifference of the Anglican
+Church and the intellectual apathy of the so-called Nonconformist
+conscience. This is why there is no stability behind the old phraseology,
+the old ceremonials, the old confessions of faith--now so many catch-words
+which the people abhor. And this is why the working men find it so easy to
+send their leaders to Parliament. For the same reason Russian radicalism
+is certain of a warm welcome on English soil.
+
+It is true that this hypocrisy is subconscious, having had its origin
+during the French Revolution. This renders it far more dangerous because
+political leaders in England today are mentally incompetent to realize the
+danger that lies before them.
+
+We cannot reason with people whose vision is dulled by four generations of
+moral apathy. Hence they will continue to "kick against the pricks" to the
+bitter end. There will be strife added to strife, confusion to confusion,
+and they, themselves, will invite the drastic events which must follow so
+much stubborn resistance to the demands of common justice and the progress
+of civilization.
+
+
+
+
+PRINCE BISMARCK
+
+Recorded November 3d, 1920
+
+
+When I imposed an indemnity of five billion francs on the French people in
+1870 we knew that the money could and would be paid. But there is no
+parallel between Germany in 1920 and France in 1870. The Reparations
+Commission has only succeeded in proving its incompetence. The German
+delegates have shown that the Allied war claims amount to more than five
+hundred billion marks (gold), which is nearly four thousand billions at
+the present rate of exchange.
+
+This fantastic sum, one hundred times more than France paid to Germany in
+1870, is expected of a country on the verge of revolution and chaos. I
+charge this Commission with incompetence, extravagance, luxurious living,
+and claims at once absurd and ridiculous.
+
+You punish some of the most dangerous criminals by indeterminate
+sentences, which frequently end after a year's imprisonment, but you
+expect to hold the German people in financial bondage for more than a
+generation to come because of the criminal blunders of less than a hundred
+individuals.
+
+I was blinded by material factors at the time of my seeming triumphs but
+now I can see some of the things which will never come to pass. The French
+and the English are repeating some of the blunders I made fifty years ago.
+They are counting on conditions which will never exist, like a bird
+sitting on a nest of mixed eggs from which the cuckoo will eventually oust
+all the other birds.
+
+French people are under the illusion that Russia will meet the obligations
+undertaken by the late Czar. To expect such a thing shows the child-like
+illusions under which French fanatics are living. They are still wrapped
+in the swaddling clothes of politics.
+
+We committed crimes that have brought civilization to the brink of chaos,
+but we are not capable of such naivete.
+
+The logic of a Frenchman is no better than the mysticism of a Russian or
+the sentimentality of an Englishman. French people learned nothing from
+the blunders of Napoleon III and the debacle of Sedan. And the reason?
+They have remained provincial while the Germans imitated the commercial
+cosmopolitanism of the English.
+
+Advice is the cheapest of all things. Nevertheless, I advise your
+statesmen to place no reliance on sentimental contracts written on paper
+foredoomed to become "scraps."
+
+I do not hesitate to declare that no agreement signed since 1913 is worth
+more than the seals. In Europe, leaders and rulers have passed from an
+international game of chess to a national gamble with marked cards.
+
+You have now to deal with an element which did not exist in my time. This
+element embraces all factions of the new radicalism, no matter in what
+country or under what leader. Some of these elements may unite, but they
+are not going to change. How, then, can you undertake to insure the future
+by contracts signed and sealed by elderly gentlemen with good intentions
+and poor judgment?
+
+The war gave the new factions the long wished-for opportunity. They seized
+it in Russia, in Germany, in Poland, in Britain, and other countries. But
+the opportunities created by the war are one thing, the opportunities of
+tomorrow will be different, and it is this contingency for which your
+leaders are not prepared. You will have to select men of vision who will
+judge events as they arrive, without regard to the distant future, which
+belongs to no man.
+
+One of my greatest mistakes was in separating Protestant Prussia from the
+interests of the Catholics of South Germany.
+
+The new radicalism is opposed to some things which are irrevocably linked
+with religious doctrine.
+
+Without the Catholic Church all Europe would be in the throes of the
+Commune. The principal cause of our disintegration was that we sanctioned
+Protestant flirtation with modern materialism.
+
+France is beginning to see that even a weak monarchy is better than a
+radical government without a God.
+
+You may expect a return of the monarchy in more than one country.
+Agnostics and Protestants, moved by fear on one side, and disgust on the
+other, will unite for a restoration as their last hope. There will be a
+repetition of historic events.
+
+Bonaparte was ushered in by the French Revolution, and his advent was
+followed by three kings and one emperor.
+
+The majority treat their rulers as children treat their toys: when the
+novelty wears off a change is demanded.
+
+Political psychology and religious sentiment are not the same thing.
+Nevertheless, they must be considered together. The Germans are now
+awaiting the hour when the inevitable change will be demanded. Events take
+crowns from some heads and place them on others. If the ex-Kaiser ever
+occupies the throne again a modern Nero will fiddle amidst the ruins of
+German imperialism, for you know he meddled with fiddle strings as well as
+with political wires.
+
+You think it strange? The impossible is always happening. Never lose sight
+of the fact that an organized minority is more formidable than a
+disorganized majority. Three men brought about the coup d'etat that placed
+the outcast Louis Napoleon on the throne, one man started the Russian
+Revolution, I planned the overthrow of the Second Empire with the aid of
+Count von Moltke. The majority put their trust in numbers, but the bigger
+a thing grows the nearer it is to disintegration. An autocratic minority
+ruled in Germany, an automatic majority rules in France and England. Two
+men started the present rule in Moscow, both of them from the outside.
+
+"God has been merciful to us," said Cavour, in the Italian Senate, "He has
+made Spain one degree lower than Italy." God has been merciful to Germany,
+He has made Russian communism more abhorrent than German socialism.
+
+Nothing will be left undone by the French government to secure permanent
+occupation of the coal district of the Rhine.
+
+Conditions will not remain long as they are. They are preparing decisive
+coups in Bavaria, Hanover, Austria and Hungary. New combinations will
+amaze your statesmen and diplomats, who are ignorant of the fact that
+changes and upheavals operate in cycles of three and seven. What they call
+chance is the working of law. Spiritual forces operate through the
+physical, and nature will take a hand in the reactions in Petrograd and
+Moscow. Cold, hunger and starvation will dissipate the hopes of the ruling
+minority. Untold numbers will be sacrificed.
+
+During the French Revolution philosophers and thinkers were decapitated.
+In Russia such men are killed by hunger, the difference being one of
+method.
+
+Such conditions will be repeated in different countries until people learn
+that the spiritual cannot be separated from the material without pain and
+slaughter.
+
+After all the long-winded conferences and shorthand reports nothing is
+left but a confusion of blots on the tissue paper of time.
+
+I may say more on another occasion.
+
+
+
+
+HENRY WARD BEECHER
+
+
+The happy-go-lucky humor of the day is no match for the cool calculation
+of European communists. English and American humorists do for the public
+what the court jester once did for blase kings.
+
+In the sardonic temper of the Russian revolutionist, I see a return of the
+French temper of 1793.
+
+Most of the sermons and speeches of the time are chameleon in character
+and tepid in feeling. English humorists developed a flagrant cynicism,
+spotted with a varioloid paradox, while French writers have halted between
+the isolation of the hospital and the insularity of the home.
+
+The war brought Anatole France to his senses, the last of the Gallic wits,
+who possessed a greater charm than Voltaire without attaining his
+universal prestige. Prince Bismarck declares that the French have learned
+nothing since their defeat at Sedan. Yet French writers have learned more
+from the great war than the writers of any other country.
+
+English humor is meant to entertain a public lost in the cynical
+buffooneries of materialism; American humor is meant to amuse a public
+lost in the mazes of extravagant pleasures and provincial inanities.
+
+English humor has a certain seal; American humor a certain mark--the
+difference between sealing wax and a postage stamp. Both aim to fill the
+ghastly gap left by the doctrine of evolution since it caught the fancy of
+agnostic freebooters in 1870--forerunners of something grimmer than the
+Soviet symbols of a return of puritanism even now creeping into view as
+ivy creeps up the water spouts.
+
+Laughter will vanish, since there will be nothing left to laugh at.
+Dancing will cease, for curfew will ring at nine and people will begin
+work at five.
+
+Remember that all the great modern movements had an obscure origin.
+Spiritualism began in a country farm-house, Christian Science developed
+out of mediumship, prohibition was started in a village, woman's suffrage
+was started by a Quakeress, Theosophy began at a farm-house in Vermont,
+the Salvation Army was started by a group of obscure persons.
+
+The new puritanism will start by a committee of persons unknown to the
+public, chosen from the ranks of the Methodists, Baptists and
+Presbyterians. Grim determinists, they will ignore satire, sarcasm and
+irony, ignore party politics, ignore the opposition of luke-warm
+Christians, form committees, in which they will be aided by drastic
+reactions during the period of readjustment.
+
+Centers will soon be formed in Atlanta, Nashville, Cleveland, Boston,
+Hartford, Philadelphia and Washington, D. C.
+
+What is causing so much crime? Not one, but many elements of decadence,
+all operating together, among which I can name rag, jazz, high balls,
+cabarets, free verse, neurotic art, sentimental optimism, cheap notions of
+progress, neutral sermons, automobilism, lack of child discipline, absence
+of fear among people under the age of forty--evils which you may apply to
+all English-speaking countries.
+
+The licence of the cities dominates country life and country thought. The
+city minority rules the majority in the country, and it is in the country
+that the reaction will begin.
+
+
+
+
+JOHN MARSHALL
+
+(Second Message)
+
+
+Many of the smaller nations, instead of being content with their liberty,
+have thrown it away for the licence that always goes with land grabbing.
+For a nation is nothing more than an individual with a certain amount of
+collective ambition.
+
+Much of the work of the League of Nations will have to be undone. But it
+will not be undone by any League. The nations will settle differences in
+accordance with the law that permits the more powerful to wield control
+commensurate with their geographical and intellectual importance.
+
+All people have rights which ought to be respected, but some have
+privileges as well as rights, and the privileged will hold the upper hand
+as long as intelligence takes precedence of illiteracy, energy dominates
+over lethargy, and the power of organized numbers rules over minorities.
+
+Your statesmen and your mediators will have to learn the distinction
+between rights and privileges. All are supposed to possess common rights
+under the common law, but it is wisdom, supported by poise and power, that
+constitutes privilege. David and Solomon were privleged. So were Alfred
+the Great, Washington and Lincoln.
+
+A nation is temperamental like an individual. The temperament may be
+vascillating or it may be stolid; it may be logical or it may be
+commercial; or a combination of the Saxon and the Celt.
+
+The nations that will hold the balance of power in the future will be the
+ones with the most will and poise, backed by number. Riches, alone, will
+not save. Wealth did not save Germany from disaster, nor did it help
+Nopoleon III to ward off the Prussian invasion in 1870. Wealth invites
+invasion and conquest. This is why England and America will now be the
+principal target for the ambitious and the discontented. This is why Japan
+seeks a firm foothold in China, and the Russians an entrance to India
+through Persia.
+
+Without the prospects of loot there would be no war. When ambition and
+glory lure a nation on, the desire for loot supplies the motor force. When
+hunger forces a people to invade a nation, loot becomes a necessity.
+
+What the wealthy of every nation refuse to understand, or even to
+consider, is that material force engenders vanity, individualism, rivalry
+and envy. All manifestations of force contain an element of
+disintegration. The type of a nation will always represent the policy and
+the trend of the nation.
+
+The supreme blunder of the Peace Conference was made when the delegates,
+with Mr. Wilson at their head, refused to face the fact that no nation can
+rise above the ideals and idiosyncrasies of the national temperament, and
+that sudden liberation from restraint is as dangerous for a country as it
+is for an individual.
+
+There is but one step between liberty and licence, and that step meant
+pandemonium for all classes in Russia. For other peoples it may mean
+political bondage and the total loss of a national spirit. For the Hindoos
+it will mean civil wars between the different native rulers, for China it
+has meant a series of revolutions and counter revolutions which may have
+to be suppressed by the drastic hand of a Japanese Bonaparte.
+
+The League Conference at Versailles took no account of the working of
+natural law. Sentimentality was the key-note of Mr. Wilson's idealism, and
+commercial expansion the dominant idea of his opponents.
+
+As for religion exerting any fundamental influence for peace and right
+thinking, it caused Protestants to fight Protestants and Catholics to
+fight Catholics, while German and Austrian cardinals did all in their
+power to aid in the invasion and conquest of Belgium and France, on one
+hand, and Italy, the stronghold of the Papal See, on the other; and all
+this in the face of the statement of the Kaiser that Catholicism must be
+destroyed. Nothing like it has been known since the dawn of Christianity.
+
+The only apparent reason for the quiescent attitude of some of the smaller
+nations is that they are without the material means of waging war on their
+neighbors.
+
+Just as long as politicians are impelled by self-interest there will be
+found nations that will have to use force for the suppression of licence
+and the curtailment of liberty. In every country the people are getting
+what their thoughts and deeds create for them.
+
+
+
+
+ABRAHAM LINCOLN
+
+
+Events come and go in cycles--there is a beginning, a middle and an end.
+The League of Nations had a beginning and it will have an end. But what
+kind of an end? Will it be one of victory or one of ignominy?
+
+The two fatal blunders of the Kaiser and his cohorts consisted in the
+delusion that England could not raise, equip and transport a body of
+troops sufficient to offer adequate resistance to the invaders of France
+in conjunction with the French and Belgian armies, and that America could
+not or would not join the European Allies.
+
+At the present juncture the inimical forces, both in continental Europe
+and in America, are repeating the old blunders under fresh conditions.
+
+History is a repetition of the old tunes with new variations. Just now the
+fireworks of sophistry and rhetoric drown out the familiar tune and what
+is heard is the buzz-saw of political machinery.
+
+Hyenas are gnawing the bones left by the lion rampant of Czardom; and
+Siberia, the remnant, is being consumed by jackals from Japan. It remains
+to be seen how long voters with American pedigrees will be influenced by
+demagogues who would induce them to part with their birthright for a mess
+of pottage burnt on the bottom.
+
+The longer you wink at anarchy in Europe the greater will be the menace of
+social chaos at home. The worship of shibboleths cannot be kept up beyond
+a point where the majority grow tired of hocus-pocus politics and
+academical agnosticism.
+
+There should be harmony of interests in dealing with the people of Mexico,
+from whom you have much to learn in many ways.
+
+The Obregon Government should be recognized at Washington and immediate
+steps taken to insure cordial relations between the two countries.
+
+The City of Mexico is a capital with a great future.
+
+You are about to pass through a period of great confusion. Warnings have
+been given but not heeded. Unless you cease to theorize, and propagate a
+spirit of justice and judgment, the near future will develop something
+more than storms in the blue china teapots of diplomacy.
+
+
+
+
+ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
+
+
+Washington needs a breaker of images.
+
+The pedestrian sauntering down Pennsylvania Avenue cannot but note the
+hefty Hancock on horseback, looking as if he had just left a meeting of
+ward politicians, and, in another part of the city, McClellan, the Beau
+Brummel of the Civil War, on a charger, sniffing the smoke of battle from
+a safe distance, and others whose names are writ in water but whose
+effigies remain in bronze.
+
+To the scrap heap with these, and in their places erect memorials for the
+women, who did as much for America as Joan of Arc did for France, the
+intrepid pioneers of their race, the prophetic patriots of the nineteenth
+century--Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony.
+
+It would take a Lincoln Memorial to depict their serenity, a National
+Capitol to symbolize their nobility, a Washington Monument to typify the
+towering height of their achievement and the scope and clarity of their
+vision.
+
+
+
+
+STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS
+
+
+A war between America and England would fill your homes with desolation
+and bring ruin to the whole country. Do your sins of omission merit such a
+punishment? I am here to tell you what to expect if such a hurricane of
+disaster ever sweeps the two countries.
+
+Millions of people are under the impression that the United States can act
+independently of the conditions prevailing in the other great nations.
+This suggestion, coming, as it did, from a professional joker in England,
+has met with eager response from revolutionary emissaries now in your
+midst, supported by political fillibusters who are masking the truth.
+
+If England ever starts such a war she will lose India. Her direction of
+the reins of civilization in many quarters of the world would cease on the
+day hostilities began. But I am speaking for America.
+
+A war with England would Russianize the United States within three months.
+Even if the navy could keep the enemy at a safe distance the destructive
+forces at home would loot the principal cities and spread terror from
+ocean to ocean.
+
+The first to lose in such an upheaval would be the wealthy propagandists
+of disorder and violence, who, living in security now, would be hurled
+with destructive force against the weapons of their own creation.
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL BENJAMIN H. GRIERSON
+
+Late Commander of the Military Department of Southern California, Arizona
+and New Mexico
+
+
+In 1914 western civilization was threatened by a military autocracy
+centralized at Berlin. Europe is now threatened by a communistic tyranny
+centralized at Moscow and by an autocratic aristocracy centered in Japan,
+anti-Christian, anti-democratic, anti-American. You may call it fate or
+destiny, it matters not so long as you know what the signs and portents
+are.
+
+We can see what is going on in the navy yards of the Nipponese Empire. We
+have noted the strenuous efforts put forth in naval preparations there.
+
+A Japanese Bonaparte will soon dominate China and prevent Christian
+propaganda throughout Asia. I could give you the dates fixed for certain
+maneuvers and events in connection with Japanese ambitions relating to
+America, but they could change the dates. Suffice it to say they are
+making ready as fast as possible, much faster than many in this country
+could be made to believe. When the decisive moment arrives for action it
+will come suddenly, like the invasion of Belgium by the Germans.
+
+Here are some of their expectations:--
+
+The invasion of the coast of Mexico and a coalition of Japanese forces
+with some military faction in Mexico likely to be of practical aid, the
+bombing of American cities on the Pacific Coast from the air, virtual
+cessation of communication between certain sections east of the Rocky
+Mountains and California, brought about not so much by physical means as
+by revolutionary influences. They are counting on a Soviet revolution east
+of the Rockies while they are gaining a foothold in California.
+
+One of their first attempts would be to bomb the railway passes in the
+Cascades and the Sierra Nevadas.
+
+General Grant has warned you in regard to the Panama Canal and other
+points that need immediate attention. Millions would be alarmed if they
+could realize how much the Government at Washington resembles the British
+Government just before the German descent into Belgium. Are they waiting
+until they can spy the enemy through field glasses?
+
+I could give a map of the plans of approach of the Japanese navy, intended
+to operate in separate units, but it would do no good. They are ready to
+change their tactics at any time, and have done so more than once.
+
+Let me add that the bellicose attitude of the war party in Japan is such
+that a war between England and America would be hailed as a symbol of
+their divine destiny.
+
+Do not be surprised when I say that they proclaim the end of Christian
+civilization was reached when the Anglo-Saxons took possession of the
+Pacific Coast.
+
+In the Far East, British domination attained its zenith in India; in
+America, Anglo-Saxon influence attained its limit in California. The
+possession of the Pacific Coast of North America is, therefore, the limit
+for the dominant white race. The tocsin has sounded for a Japanese avatar
+who will unify the political, commercial and religious forces of Japan and
+China, give the coup de grace to a tottering civilization and dominate the
+world. So do they reason and preach.
+
+
+
+
+ALEXANDER HAMILTON
+
+
+What do the clouds on the social horizon predict? Is Nature a book of
+fate? If so, is it sealed or open? Whoever understands the political
+actions of the past can foresee the reactions of the future.
+
+Human nature is always the same.
+
+The two things brought to the surface by great upheavals are extreme
+virtues and extreme vices. The virtue of self sacrifice, on the one hand,
+the vice of self interest on the other. Vice is flexible, cunning,
+adaptable.
+
+You are living at a time when profiteers amaze by their cynical audacity,
+but profiteers have always existed. Before the war the nobles of Russia
+and Germany were profiteers in landed privileges and governmental
+perquisites. The tillers of the soil were free in name, serfs in practice.
+In England two or three hundred lords and peers possess the land. In
+America food profiteering began during the Civil War. This national vice
+has never been attacked at the roots.
+
+Your age is characterized by a high level of predatory ability and a low
+level of prophetic visibility.
+
+The old hackneyed phrase, "This is a free country," has been applied in
+varying degrees according to the caprice of the individual with the most
+aggressive will.
+
+New words, definitions, excuses, have been invented to meet the new
+conditions, but of all the words yet brought into use, "camouflage" is the
+only one that covers the cynical effrontery of predatory hypocrisy. It is
+a vocable of universal utility. It applies to the cock-pits of commerce as
+well as to the arena of bull and bear politics.
+
+It depicts a Hindoo patience in the pulpit and a Hoodoo palsy in the pews.
+
+The word "democracy" itself is the stripes painted on the sides of the old
+Ship of State in her zig-zag course to elude the torpedoes of the
+proletarian submarines.
+
+A capitalistic profiteer is a high brow optimist who lives by the sweat of
+the low brow pessimist. The stretching process will cease suddenly like
+the snapping of a rubber string stretched beyond the limit.
+
+The masses without a voice always find articulation in the unlooked-for
+man, the unlooked-for group.
+
+The people without a mouthpiece are a mob, and no mob can run itself for
+more than a few days. It is the initiated who lead, and leadership
+requires time, patience, judgment.
+
+In the world of genius there are no upstarts.
+
+The great leader never rises suddenly. Bonaparte was a military graduate,
+Grant was a product of West Point, Lincoln was thirty years preparing for
+the Presidency, Lenine spent twenty years in the study of economics. All
+countries have the same experience.
+
+Voltaire endowed the middle classes of France with a voice, united the
+disaffected of all classes, and peppered their indignation with pungent
+epigrams. He created an intellectual garden for lovers of liberty, and
+from the realm of the mind flung the thorns of ridicule in the face of
+titled imbeciles and crowned the heads of scholars with laurel.
+
+The people of France were washed by Louis XIV, wrung by Louis XV, and
+dried in the back yard of tyrannical economics by Louis XVI.
+
+But it was the orators and pamphleteers who ironed out the frills and
+furbelows of the old order.
+
+Statistical facts may convince but they do not compel. Who knows how the
+French Revolution would have ended had Mirabeau, orator of the great and
+solemn days, survived to put into action the idealism of Rousseau?
+Intellect alone never passes the halfway house. When intellect, reason and
+emotion are fused in one, the summit of achievement is attained.
+
+
+
+
+PHILLIPS BROOKS
+
+
+The time for discipline is approaching. Happy are those who, under Divine
+direction, consent to be led, for, in the words of Quintilian:--Nulla
+poena est nisi invito, or as Seneca expressed it, Fata volentum ducunt,
+involentem trahunt,--those who refuse will be dragged.
+
+You must in some manner experience the ordeals common to other peoples,
+and you have seen from a distance what has overtaken many cities and
+nations, the inhabitants of which felt themselves as fixed as the rocks in
+the soil. Yet, all that is happening is in harmony with Divine law. You
+will find it in Isaiah and Jeremiah. The repetition is inevitable except
+for those who possess vision.
+
+The time for appeals is past.
+
+"The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth, the
+haughty people of the world do languish."
+
+"When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled, and when thou
+shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously
+with thee."
+
+Are the people astonished? Let them marvel at their own willfulness.
+
+"The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not
+have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into
+the gates of Jerusalem."
+
+Titus, with his army, destroyed the Holy City. The enemy entered the gates
+from without but your adversaries have long been entrenched within.
+
+Mammon is heavily laden and will fall from the top. Material power is
+volatile.
+
+In the day of trial, the retainer and the hireling will seek a refuge,
+every man for himself. They will melt like the wax image before the heat
+of the furnace. On that day humility will be as a precious gift and
+poverty as a peace offering.
+
+Blessed is he who uses the spade and the hoe, for by the sweat of his brow
+he shall eat the bread of security.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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