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Psychic Power V3 N3 Mar 1924 I E D I T O R I A L P A G E Arthur Brisbane Says of Former President acquiring the stern, crisp vigor of the other man. His Woodrow Wilson great opportunity also came. He formulated the now He is dead, and therefore he is safe. Let that famous fourteen points. The world held its breath thought comfort those left to monrn. He is forever in the fervor of its expectancy. The principles that free from suffering, disappointment and sorrow. He had been instilled into him; those he had learned in had many dreams not destined to be realized, for tellectually hut not experienced spiritually would not ages, if ever. Now, he will never know it. In his stand the strain. Instead of holding Europe to both shattered body his mind worked with restless energy, the principle and the letter of those fourteen points, tormented by the knowledge that his conceptions could he weakly gave way when on the very point of most not be made realities, for lack of physical strength. luminous success, allowing thus the years of misery All the futile, hopeless, vain yearning ends forever. and suffering the world has since endured. Ho did He is beyond the reach of disappointment, freed for not realize, not having the result of own psychic in ever from the troubles of this world. Who would bring him back? sight. It was not his fault. He did the best he could. The fault lay in the social matrix from which he But is he dead? Is he safe? Is he freed from, suffering, disappointment and sorrow? We who know sprung. He enjoyed and wielded the power of in that death does not end the career of man, thunder tellectuality to the highest degree; hut the how did not NO. His eyes will become brighter, his suffering more have the carrying power to land the shaft at the vital intense, as he realizes the vastness of Life and the spot. It fell short and he was carried off his feet by shortcomings of man. Bowed in sorrow when he views the flood of selfishness and egotism that overpowered the mis-shaped forms and the wrecked humanity surg him on every side amid the seething European an ing backward and forward, seeking surcease from pain tagonisms. He was the shining and perfect product and sorrow—the blighted hopes of youth—the blot of modern aristocratic tendencies which teach that upon our fair country—the pouring out of Human might is right. Consummate justice alone can he truly ity's blood in vain—; when he realizes and in that real right. It is against this fatal reef that the stalwart ization his vision sweeps the devastated homes on ships of civilization after civilization have foundered every hand—. and disappeared. We close the door of our visipn to Ant out the It is onr fondest hope that, before it is too late, agony of soul of that great man who did not know enough unselfish souls with keenly developed insight the Law of Life——. will be able so to leaven the whole fabric of society as to bring to the entire world the consciousness of justice leading on to peace for alL This can be done only Two conspicuous figures have just left us to take up their further life evolution under other conditions. through earefully investigating and compiling all the We refer to Nikolai Lenine and to Woodrow Wilson. facts. They both did the best they knew how; but their equip ment in life’s earth raee was very uneqnal. Lenine While we are waiting for the hard diamond drill had tasted the stem realities of poverty and self to bore its way painfully forward and upward to abnegation for so many years that he had risen supe the required point, we will, using onr keener percep rior to their action, achieving thus an independence of will power and a breadth of vision that enabled him tive faculties, carry the investigation far beyond, using to seize unselfishly the great opportunity offered him the same methods that onr doughty scientists have of pushing his beloved country far in advance of where so long tried out, namely through the gathering of it previously stood. unnumbered data, through classifying them, analyz Wilson, on the other hand, carefully guided and pro ing them, deducing the larger relations which are thus tected not only during his youth hut hedged in on all bared to our view, and using the ever greater facts sides by the admiring votaries of a special social caste thus acquired as a secure foothold for greater achieve during his matnrer years, was thus prevented from ments yet to come. Alfred Gould. Should Not Be Slandered Boy nature and girt nature are less repressed and prietorship over the world that is to he. The follies therefore more wholesome today than before. If of youth are hardly comparable with it. Youth, lack they; at times: seem unimpressed by their elders, it is ing the channels of publicity, has no way to make its probably because we make a matter of authority opinions felt, but enough is known of the new genera what should be a matter of egnferdhsie* These young tion to make it dear that if the elders have their com people are new people, gopt io this scene by Destiny plaints about youth, Youth also has its complaints take our places. Theyr'mtm1 with new visions to about the elders. The two worlds criticize each other. ftidfill, new powers to exploit. Precious little shall we And if it is entirely proper in one, it is not entirely leave them because our world is not the world they disrespectful in the other. want; they will build their own new world, even as we The situation is painful, because it is not under built ours. If, however, youth were keen to save time stood. And it is not understood because of the notion and suffering, there is something to its advantage in we 'entertain as to who these children are. We think gleaning the wisdom its elders have won. The rung of they are creations of ourselves when in fact they are the ladder that lifts one is not to be spurned. new people, entirely new people, as new in their time -HS-8 ' B-8= as the people who industrialized this country were new in theirs. And thus destined to be misunderstood. There was probably never a younger generation that Whoever they are they are here, and theirs is the world did not have to endure the judgment of being morally of the future, and the world of the future will be inferior to, or at least more careless than, its elders. greater far than ours. That faet in itself should en One of the signs of adulthood seems to he a convic gender a respeetful attitude toward them. tion that fffl generation which is following along after If we are not quite capable of that height, there are is certain to give the world another kick .down the at least the facts of the situation. And the facts in slopes of perdition. J t always has been so, it is so now, dicate that, so far as badness goes, the nature of the and presumably it will continue so for some time. youth of today is not bad. In faet it is the very laek Hot that this unjpt of view is dtaued by ail, ighougih of badness that is the constant marvel, considering the ft does seem to fee the natural affl majority conditions which evil imaginations have created. Boy view. There wf®® have seen the *mat- nature and girl nature is just what they ever were, if ter fe^iftfM ann^fr light, for whom the onsweep of anything perhaps a little better today than before the generations is the ground of highest hope. Look because of the disappearance of so much of the repres ing at the adult jvorld many have^jqfen Impressed with sion that formerly oppressed youth and tantalized it the difficulty of greatly, hatter. if® break out recklessly. ..There is a **sei2 about maturity that is almost itnpos- ® |||| |i< lltftel.. So many people cease |® grow and We fancy that boys are wrecking themselves via begin to.harden. 1 ‘Settling dawn” is so often a.|sital‘ the cigaret route and that girls are following suit via process, a. gi jiii& But widh me pliable nnw the dance route, and yet it is reported that only thirty generation, npeinm|!n,de^. sensitive, ivhpunsive, f]p: per cent of Harvard students smoke, while for the outlook is so different that many have seenjn youth vast majority of young girls a dance is a rare experi the hope of the world. ence. In some circles, of course, it is credibly reported Mystery and miracle mark th$ generations anyway. that the social life of the young goes on with little Out of the Invisible they come, like successive human supervision, but this is not to be put down to the ac waves washing up on the shores of time and experience. count of youth, it is plainly proof of the negligence of In their helplessness they are the care of the genera adults. People who have lately made money, and who tion that preceded them; but hardly are we aware of are striving to live after what they think are the habits them before they become our challengers. The elders of the rich (as those habits are portrayed in the think their age gives them authority;; Youth knows no movies) have always been in the world, and to exalt authority but that which cannot be evaded—the au their lack of balance as likely to upset the world is to thority of character and real knowledge.
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