This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...mold. In its just admiration for material efficiency, for the smooth co-ordination of the various parts of the organism, it must not forget that it is dealing with men, not with senseless matter, that to coerce the spiritual is to kill it. Better, far better for us and for the world, that we should " muddle ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...mold. In its just admiration for material efficiency, for the smooth co-ordination of the various parts of the organism, it must not forget that it is dealing with men, not with senseless matter, that to coerce the spiritual is to kill it. Better, far better for us and for the world, that we should " muddle along " with all our silly little reforms, making egregious blunders, but all the while, please God, discovering a little more of the truth, than that we should be mobilized by a military aristocracy into a magnificent, unthinking machine, insensitive, as Germany was insensitive, to any right or any good beyond her national boundaries. The superman is merely a cad outside of his own country. If lack of efficiency, a misapprehension of national justice, make us weak, that is less terrible than a totally self-centered efficiency which is the strength of a machine, not the strength of organized, self-supporting and mutually supporting human beings. A false hand at the wheel may guide such an engine, built for production, into the path of destruction. If the people are merely supermen, parts of this terribly efficient engine, blindly following a false leader, they can have before them only gigantic failure, must be finally destroyed by the inevitable triumph of spiritual right over brute might. Germany will never Germanize the world; it will only succeed in making the world, in its abhorrence of the machine, refuse to learn the worthy lessons which it undoubtedly had to teach. But America is, at present, in little danger of falling into the sin of Germany. We are in far greater danger of befuddling ourselves with half-baked solutions of the constantly multiplying issues of an increasingly complex social system. We are unwilling to give...
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