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and on the right side, from founding schools
and hospitals to founding religions. In be-
tween these are to be found innumerable other
forms—good, bad and indifferent,—national
and international. But few of them seem to
have any moral purpose in them now-a-days.
Whither Education?"

"If we erect only the iron framework
(supplied by modern science and modern machin-
ery) and cement it with blood to support
power, the false civilization leaning on it will
only be what the modern age has proved it to
be—Satanic barbarism and inhuman war. "

He has something to say regarding Monarchy
and Democracy:
" There is a warmer feeling at the bottom
of the human heart for a king than for a crowd.
The human heart has more love and reverence
for a king than for a crowd. The human mind
may be led to approve of democracy on princi-
ple, as it sometimes does, but it cannot be said
that it has any warm affection for a mob. ' Odi
profanum vulgus * exclaimed a Latin poet. A
moderate feeling called loyalty to a principle
may be in favour of democracy, but it is very
different from ardent loyalty to a man in the
person of a good king. Look at England/'