“WHETHER IN GENERAL WE ARE GETTING ON, AND IF SO WHERE WE ARE GOING TO.” RUSKIN “I’ve got to a time of life,” says the hero of a modern novel, “when the only theories that interest me are generalisations about realities.” There are many contemporary observers who do not require advancing years and a wider experience of life to concentrate them upon so serious a study. It is not that they deliberately turn towards consideration of the meaning and progress of the actual life around them. It is that they cannot--with the best desire in the world--escape from such an encompassing problem. To those the only question before them is the present: the pa…
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