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say only religion and morality, which have been
brutally driven out of it by the organised
efforts of revolutionaries for their own pur-
poses. The law of nature makes the feelings
of the individual the most efficient force
vibrating through the vast complicated body
of human society. It is, therefore, the man —
the unit—that has to be humanised ; then
will the community, the tribe, the nation, the
race come to be reformed gradually from within/'

" A little boy is of greater importance in
this respect than any self-constituted Dictator
of Barbarism. Mould him so as to make the
brute type impossible in future. Religion and
morality can build up great civilizations as
has been proved by history over and over
again, and such civilizations alone can be good."

"I do not see any particular beauty in
this bizarre modernism — neither in its costume
and manners and morals, nor in its literature
and art. Frankly, I am not a lover of ' the jazz
mentality ' and I deserve all the contempt that
the superior Georgian can hurl at my head,
and I accept it with gratitude and pride —
because I am not like him."

" What shall we think of this diseased
modernism ? It is a vicious cult, and let us
hope that it is only a temporary craze. I am