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Then suddenly, across a dangerous ocean and a continent of war, his aging eyes hehld a great nation being born from the womb of a great theory ?Russia, the first-born of Communism. Like old Simeon he cried: "A light to lighten the Gentiles," but with more vitality than the Biblical patriarch he proceeded to write a book. He called it Communism and Christianity...
...this finite world, great men are merely concrete examples of the "ideal possibilities" of nature. But Mr. Santayana speaks of "other essences" always present "in the womb of the infinite", and so suggests the question of "who is there today that is really great?" In literature there are many prominent figures, among whom Kipling, with his genius for short stories and for verse and an occasional gift of true poetry, is the chief. In statesmanship--who is there? The cynic is apt to quote the great Disraeli, saying that "the world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into...
From teeming Lion's fertile womb...