Sunday, July 16, 2017

"You cannot kill the working class"

WORKING CLASS HISTORY
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS #CPUSA
I LOVE THE TITLE OF THIS PAMPHLET
"You cannot kill the working class,"
by Herndon, Angelo, 1913-1997.
https://archive.org/details/youCannotKillTheWorkingClass
a pamphlet by a CP activist who became a cause celeb when he was arrested in Georgia for "inciting insurrection"
Topics African Americans. Working class -- Southern States. Communism -- United States. Herndon, Angelo, 1913-1997.
Publisher [New York : International Labor Defense and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights,
ITS THE #BLM OF ITS TIME
Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line
https://www.marxists.org/…/…/proletarian-cause/article13.htm
Proletarian Cause
N. Sanders
Let Me Live! a book review
* * *
Editor’s Note
Angelo Herndon was a great hero of the Afro-American people and of the United States working class. The fact that a hero as great as Angelo Herndon emerged in the South during the twenties and thirties is testimony to the high- level of struggle waged by the masses of Black and white people in the South.
We must encourage the study of past working class struggles in the United States and bring back to life the examples of past working class heroes such as Herndon. The U.S. ruling class has carried out a campaign to deny the masses of people in the United States their true heroes and their revolutionary history. Periods such as the twenties and thirties in this country are periods of class struggle that showed to the whole world and ourselves the great power, unity, and revolutionary spirit of the American working class. It is this revolutionary spirit and revolutionary history that the capitalists would have us forget.
Let Me Live
Angelo Herndon
Introduction by Marlon B. Ross
The passionate prison autobiography of Angelo Herndon, Communist union organizer of the 1930s
Description
Series Class : Culture
Let Me Live tells the remarkable story of Angelo Herndon, a coal miner who worked as a labor organizer in Alabama and Georgia in the 1930s. Herndon led a racially integrated march of the unemployed in 1932 and was subsequently arrested when Communist Party literature was found in his bedroom. His trial made only small headlines at first, but eventually an international campaign to free him emerged, thanks to the efforts of the Communist Party and of labor unions interested in protecting the right to organize in the South. Herndon was finally set free by the U.S. Supreme Court, with the help of well-known leaders including C. Vann Woodward, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Whitney North Seymour, Sr.
https://www.press.umich.edu/208151/let_me_live
Review: ‘Let Me Live’
Chris Jones
MAY 4, 1998 | 12:00AM PT
This startling and abrasive prison drama by the author of "I Am a Man" (slated for future broadcast on HBO) is an impressive addition to the growing canon of an African-American playwright increasing in prominence and influence. Bleak and depressing themes, extensive onstage violence and raunchy language will doubtless limit future productions to those theaters with a taste for controversy and adventure. But this fictionalized treatment of the real-life experiences of Angelo Herndon in a 1932 Georgia jail is a searing piece of theater with the capacity to profoundly disturb even the most complacent audience member (and with the right ensemble of actors, it would make a startling movie).
ANGELO HERNDON
PAPERS
The New York Public Library
Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture
515 Malcolm Blvd.
New York, New York 10037
In 1936, Herndon became a member of the Executive Committee of the Youth Branch of the National Negro Congress. His autobiography, Let Me Live, was published by Random House in early 1937. Writing in the Harlem edition of the Communist Party newspaper, The Worker (July 14, 1949), Abner Berry called him “one of the most celebrated of American political prisoners... greeted by the President of the United States, [and] entertained on the White House lawn by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.” Herndon worked subsequently for the Daily Worker, co-edited the short-lived Negro Quarterly: a Review of Negro Life and Culture with Ralph Ellison (1942-1943), and was the editor-in-chief of The People’s Advocate, a biweekly newspaper published in 1944 by the Negro Publication Society of America. He left the Party shortly thereafter and relocated to the Midwest. He
apparently changed his name around 1937 to Eugene Braxton. He died in 1997. http://archives.nypl.org/…/col…/pdf_finding_aid/scmmg124.pdf
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: REMEMBERING ANGELO HERNDON
Posted on February 23, 2011 by David L. Hudson Jr.
During Black History Month, we should remember those who had the courage to face government opposition — even imprisonment — for their convictions.
Imagine, for example, the bravery of a young black man who traveled to the South to enlist members for the Communist Party in the early 1930s. The Chicago Defender called him a “young Communist martyr.”
http://www.newseuminstitute.org/…/black-history-month-reme…/
History & Archaeology
Civil Rights & Modern Georgia, Since 1945
Angelo Herndon Case
Original entry by Edward A. Hatfield, New Georgia Encyclopedia, 08/14/2009
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/…/hi…/angelo-herndon-case
UNZ REPRINT SERVICES PDF COPIES OF REVIEWS
OF LET ME LIVE FROM 1937
http://www.unz.org/Pub/HerndonAngelo-1937
“History” as Ideology: the Case of Angelo Herndon
As an African-American Communist in total dedication to the liberation of the working class and other oppressed peoples, Angelo Herndon’s 1937 autobiography, Let Me Live, brought a fresh perspective that challenged the traditional themes carried in both black slave and uplift narratives and white proletarian literature. Herndon’s story grants readers powerful insight into the many ways African-Americans experienced the Great Depression era, how they felt, thought, and interacted with the social and economic vagaries of American capitalism. In addition, the story of Angelo Herndon represents the emergence of a new experience for African-African organizers – political imprisonment. Yet, regardless of its unique contribution and power innovations, Let Me Live fell out of publication and into obscurity for decades. While Herndon’s story fallen has into obscurity, other accounts of black oppression have become standard history curriculum and part of popular consciousness. At the time, Herndon’s case received just as much attention as the case of the Scottsboro Boys, and, yet, today, the Scottsboro case is the approved representation of black victimization taught in “History” classes, while Herndon’s case remains largely unknown. However, the practice of only admitting certain parts of the past into institutional memory is no mystery. Angelo Herndon has not been incorporated into “History,” for his autobiography was and still is a subversion to several dominant American mythologies, including the mythologies of black male victimization, black male achievement, and the idea of black labor, which made it irreconcilable with the existing superstructure and a threat to the dominating systems of power.
https://daretostruggle.wordpress.com/…/%E2%80%9Chistory%E2…/

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Conspiracy Theory is Anti-Intellectualism

THE ORIGINAL CULTURE WARS BEGAN IN 1960'S AFTER THE END OF THE MCCARTHYISM WHEN THE RIGHT WING DECLARED UNIVERSITIES AS HOT BEDS OF SOCIALISM AS THEY DO TODAY
The Great Deceit: Social Pseudo-Sciences: Socialist Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (1964) : Veritas Foundation / Dobbs / Roosevelt
'This is one of the most important books of our time.' -- The late Professor Revilo P. Oliver +++in 'America's Decline', p. 402 of 2006 IHR edition.
Fabian Socialist subversion of the social order through educational establishments Veritas Foundation Staff Study / Introduction & Epilogue By Archibald B. Roosevelt
Alumni mainly of of Harvard College dismayed by the realization that their University was being converted into an instrument of subversion and an incubator of traitors founded Veritas Foundation which enlisted a research staff to ascertain how Harvard had been transformed, and to fix, if possible, the responsibility See also Veritas' 'Keynes at Harvard' (2nd. ed. 1962) The mission of this book is to educate the officials and teaching staffs, governing bodies, graduates and undergraduates of American colleges and universities, as well as the general public on the subject of socialism and communism in their many branches and off-shoots and their methods of infiltration.
IN FACT THIS IS THE BASIS OF THE DISTRUST OF POST SECONDARY EDUCATION IN THE USA, ITS FOR THE ELITES AND LIKE THE FABIANS THESE ELITES LIKE CLINTON ARE ALL LEFTISTS

THAT IS WHY THE RECENT COMMENTS FROM REPUBLICANS AGAINST COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AS WELL AS THE RECENT SURVEY RESULTS SHOWING REPUBLICANS DISTRUST OF POST SECONDARY EDUCATION IN THE USA
Why Do Republicans Suddenly Hate College So Much?
Whether it’s safe spaces and free-speech issues or Trump’s lack of interest in higher education, the ramifications for the nation’s economy and schools could be serious.


ARE BASED IN THIS OLD RIGHT WING IDEOLOGY FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE LAST CENTURY TO TODAY IN ITS THIRD WAYISM IN EUROPE, ITS RENEWED NATIONALISM OF AMERICA FIRST OF THE ALT RIGHT AND TRUMP.

IT IS THE RIGHT WING BUG A BOO OF ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM, THE AW SHUCKSTERISM OF RIGHT WING POPULISM

AND ALL THE CURRENT TERMS ARE IN USE HERE , FAKE SCIENCE, PSEUDO SCIENCE, CULTURE WARS, HITLER WAS A SOCIALIST, ETC. ETC. AD NAUSEUM
The Great Deceit: Social Pseudo-Sciences: Socialist Wolves in Sheep's Clothing (1964) : Veritas Foundation / Dobbs / Roosevelt
The mission of this book is to educate the officials and teaching staffs, governing bodies, graduates and undergraduates of American colleges and universities, as well as the general public on the subject of socialism and communism in their many branches and off-shoots and their methods of infiltration.
Alumni mainly of of Harvard College dismayed by the realization that their University was being converted into an instrument of subversion and an incubator of traitors founded Veritas Foundation which enlisted a research staff to ascertain how Harvard had been transformed, and to fix, if possible, the responsibility.See also Veritas' 'Keynes at Harvard' (2nd. ed. 1962)


CONTENTS

Illustration (Fabian Socialist stained-glass window)

INTRODUCTION by Archibald B. Roosevelt


CHAPTER I

SOCIALIST-COMMUNIST BROTHERHOOD

The socialist cyst----Common leftist goal----Communists copy
socialist tricks----Socialists use 'softsell'----Socialist leaders put
over a deal----The silent infiltrators----Leftists in respectable
garb----The center of infection----An appendage to British
Fabians----Permanent deception - a success----A few Fabians
influence millions----Socialists lire treated lightly.


CHAPTER II

SOCIAL SCIENCE-A LEFTIST INSTRUMENT

"Social Science" overawes the layman----Encyclopedia has a captive
audience----Socialistic school is accredited----Million members
in 1919----Social science invades universities----Control of
textbooks----Publishers surrender to leftism----Bookclubs show
socialist slant.


CHAPTER III

SOCIALISM BEGINS AS "SOCIAL SCIENCE"

Socialists as 'social scientists'----Spiritualism once a social science----
What is "social science"?----Socialists formalize confusion.


CHAPTER IV

HISTORY AS A POLITICAL TOOL

Political murder called a "habit"----History the Hidden Persuader,
----Leftists take over history teaching----German statist philosophy----
F.D.R. at Harvard----Founding Fathers smeared----
Socialists twisted American history.


CHAPTER V

MARXISTS TWIST HISTORY

Bigotry inspired Marx----Man debased to clay----Conclusion
preceded analysis----Hitler borrowed "one enemy" from Marx----
Fake "science" killed millions----Marx the phrenologist----A
master propagandist.



CHAPTER VI

LEFTISM: PROGRESS OR REACTION?

The medieval straight-jacket----Socialism a reaction----Freedom
called "outmoded" at birth----Marx idealized savagery----
Return to Middle Ages demanded----Fabians admitted reactionary
origin----Feudalism praised as socialistic----Communism appeals
to backward peoples----Masked reaction----"One World" an
old idea----Roman tyranny inspired world socialism----Boston
Tea Party was revolt against collectivism----Fabian founder
warned against feudal socialism----Today's leftists hide their
medieval birth.


CHAPTER VII

THE ANATOMY OF PREJUDICE

The anti·Semitic bogey----Socialists fostered political anti-Semltlsm----
Jews pioneered private enterprise----Intelligentsia yearns
for a closed society----An anti-Semite coined "socialism"----
Modern socialism and anti-Semitism have common origin----Socialists
promoted anti-Semitism----Marx abused "A Jewish nigger"----
Condoned Dreyfus frame-up----Pioneer communist an anti-Semite
----Nazis and socialists have common ancestors----Socialist
anti-Semitism attracted Hitler----A socialist Jew fathered nazism


CHAPTER VIII

BIGOTRY OF AMERICAN SOCIALISTS

N. Y. Tribune printed Marx's anti-Semitisms----Bigotry marked early
socialists----Modern anti-Semites have socialist roots----British
socialists export bigotry----Life is cheap to leftists----A
socialist straddles nazism and fascism----Leftist emotionalism in
Jewish groups----Political anti-Semitism means collectivist tyranny.



CHAPTER IX

THE SCIENCE OF MAN IS BLACKED OUT

Racial theory becomes law----Founders of anthropology now ignored,
----Socialists infiltrated anthropology----"Nigger" was early
Marxist epithet----Lincoln believed in 'separate but equal'----
Early socialists were segregationists----Anthropology added to social
sciences----German "kultur" becomes American "culture"----
Leftist sociologists pervert anthropology----Socialists sounded like
Nazis----Privately anti-Negro while publicly pro-Negro----A
geographer poses as anthropologist----Leftists cluster at Columbia,
----NAACP formed as a socialist front----Radical fronts an old
tactic----Socialists planned racial mixture----Socialists
pioneered "Aryan superiority"----Leftists laid groundwork for Hitler,
----U. S. radicals advocated socialist segregation----Anthropology
a part of leftist arsenal----Leftists plotted to indoctrinate the nation,
----Propaganda peddled as "science"----Primitive sub-race
likened to Puritans----Private enterprise called "paranoid trend"
----Abnormal savages compared to executives----Socialists
manufacture doctorates for leftists----All leftists agreed on racial
line----Wealthy heiresses seduced politically----Central
holding company for social sciences----A socialist contact heads
Carnegie Foundation----Innocent cover for a crafty deception----
A socialist "expert" privately admits incompetence----NAACP writes
its own "impartial" opinion----Agree to ignore racial differences
----Biology and medicine called "reactionary"----Science
shows wide racial divergences----Negro is superior in tropics----
Lincoln wanted Negroes to leave U. S.----"Science" used to cover
racial falsehoods----A leftist follows race deception----
plan to indoctrinate a whole generation----CORE was organized by
socialists----NAACP and ACLU also socialist creations----A
Negro speaks for free enterprise----Scientists begin to fight back,
----White leftists personally keep lily-white----Signs of revolt
against academic leftism----Russia segregates Negroes for 500 years,
----Leftists demand "better than equal"----Became enslaved
instead of eaten----Cannibalism was total lynching----Negroes
killed more Americans than World War I----UN body plots to
stifle a science.


CHAPTER X

SOCIOLOGY: THE MIDWIFE OF SOCIALISM

Criminals are called victims of capitalism----Foes of leftism are
exempt from social guilt theory----Sociology and socialism founded
simultaneously----Modern totalitarianisms based on socialist sociology,
----"Science" used to cloak socialist reactionaries----Marx
was a teenage convert to leftist sociology----Non leftist sociology
was distorted by socialists----First sociology text book taught
socialism----British Fabians colonized American colleges----
Leftists codified techniques of social control----Sociology expedited
socialist infiltration----Socialists created "social psychology"----
Individual talent branded as "abnormal"----Socialism called
sane, capitalism insane----Leftist professors joined hands----
Psychology aids leftist thinking----Leftist "mental health" prepares
for "Big Brother"----Founders of socialism mentally unbalanced,
----Sociology promoted socialized medicine----Sociology
spawned leftist teachers----Statistics manipulated to aid socialism
----Fabians admit facts are only an "ornament"----Das Kapital
was padded with statistics----I.Q. tests as a leftist weapon----
Opinion takers as opinion makers----Key leftists keen for polls----
Act as midwives of leftist social work----Hull House a socialist
creation----Social work personnel is left-oriented----
Educational sociology a cover for socialism----Socialists wave banner
of "progressive education"----Leftist booklet outlines Dewey's
socialist scheme----Socialists and communists have permanent bond,
----Honest educators overshadowed hy leftists----LID heads
leftist interlocking groups----Leftists plan elite rule----
Intellectuals are only "second hand dealers"----Socialism a reactionary
"faith"----Leftism compared to the Mafia----A Fabian boasts
of the hidden "directors".


CHAPTER XI

SOCIALIZED LAW DEBASES AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE

Supreme Court frees a rapist----"Red Monday" clears a path for
leftism----Court creates a red sanctuary----Socialized law
expedited bolshevism----Roscoe Pound calls for "socialized law",
----Outlined sly deception----Leftism requires destruction of
legal system----Socialized law a reactionary concept----Socialist
pioneers admitted medieval kinship----Socialized law started by
leftist sociologists----Marxism is ancestor of sociological jurisprudence,
----German leftism poisoned American law----Infiltrated
college text books----British Fabians brought deception into the
U. S.----Definition of "jurisprudence" was left-slanted----In
1913 socialists formalized legal perversion----Leftist professors built
theories for lawyers----Frankfurter's leftist "wiggling"----
Theodore Roosevelt unmasked Frankfurter----Frankfurter sponsored
Alger Hiss----Frankfurter as a Fabian----Roscoe Pound as a
leftist front man----Pound a "Trojan Horse" for "heretical thinking",
----Shrewd schemers exploit a naive leftist----Second generation
socialists give away the game----Attack law in revolutionary move,
----"Destroy existing law in the name of law itself".----
Leftism served raw to radicals but sugar coated to others----Leftists
admire nazi skill in exploiting legality----Bolshevik Revolution as
example of socialized law----Lenin was a lawyer----States
Rights also figure in socialist plans----Supreme Court legislates for
mobocracy----Socialized law a prelude for total take-over----
Socialists say: "might is right"----A socialist quotes the Scriptures,
----Law leaders endorse a revolutionary----Supreme Court a
leftist target for 50 years----Socialism by "judicial coup d'etat"----
Fabians court O. W. Holmes----Books used as an "ideological
curtain"----Holmes refused to go all the way----"Separate
but equal" upheld by old liberals----Socialists once ignored the
Negro----F. D. Roosevelt when young was exposed to Fabianism,
----Leftists favored both in groups and as individuals----ACLU
as a socialist creation----Leftist scheming affects state legislation.
----Soviet spying via socialized law.


EPILOGUE

by ARCHIBALD B. ROOSEVELT

INDEX
+++ : 'This is one of the most important books of our time.' -- The late Professor Revilo P. Oliver in 'America's Decline', p. 402 of 2006 IHR edition.
for anti intellectuals they sure like their academic titles, even ones they make up like Dr. David Duke

OLIVER, Revilo P. - The Yellow Peril (Liberty Bell, 1983) : OLIVER, Prof. Revilo P.

Sunday, July 02, 2017

THOUGHTS FROM THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

THE MEANING OF MODERN LIFE 

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE REAL MEANING OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY  THE ERA TODAY'S #GOP HATES

WHERE #RADICALS, #CONSERVATIVES AND #LIBERALS ALL AGREED THAT THE FUTURE WAS OURS TO BUILD  (IN FACT THEY WERE ALL CLASSIC LIBERALS, EVEN #FABIAN SOCIALIST HG WELLS )


II THE DANGER
Problems To Be Met 
Theodore Roosevelt, LL.D., 
President of the United States. 

VII. THE BIRTH OF CONSCIENCE 
Morality of Nature 
Prince Peter Alexeyevich Kropotkin. 

XXX. #ANARCHISM
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Count Leo Tolstoi.

XL OUR COUNTRY 
The Making of the Nation 
Woodrow Wilson, LL.D., 
President of Princeton University

XXVIII. THE TOILERS 
Labor Organizations in America 
Carroll D. Wright, LL.D., 
President of Clark College; 
former Labor Commissioner of the United States. 

XX. THE CHILD 
The Beginnings of the Mind 
H. G. Wells, B.Sc. 

IT INCLUDED SCIENCE AND METAPHYSICS

III. THE BELIEFS 
Religion, Science, and Miracle 
Sir Oliver Lodge, LL.D., 
President University of Birmingham, England. 

IN SHORT IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF #MODERNISM 

THEN THIS SMALL VOLUME OF ESSAYS (904 PAGES)  IS THE BOOK TO READ  HERE IS ITS CONTENTS AND FORWARD TO WET YOUR APPETITE 

texts
The meaning of modern life as sought for and interpreted in a series of lectures and addresses by the leaders of modern thought and modern action;



Published 1907


Lecture 

I. THE OUTLOOK 
The Trend of the Century 
^ Seth Low, LL.D., 
Former President of Columbia University. 


III. THE BELIEFS 
Religion, Science, and Miracle 
Sir Oliver Lodge, LL.D., 
President University of Birmingham, England. 

IV. THE SUCCESSES 
Five American Contributions to Civilization 
Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., 
President of Harvard University. 

V. THE BEGINNINGS 
The Man of the Past 
E. Kay Robinson. 

VI. THE ORIGIN OF LIFE 
Its Chemical Creation by Science 
John Butler Burke, M.A., 
Cambridge University. 

VII. THE BIRTH OF CONSCIENCE 
Morality of Nature 
Prince Peter Alexievitch Kropotkin. 

VIII. THE SOUL IN BEASTS 
Growth of Modern Idea of Animals 
Countess E. Martinengo Cesaresco. 

IX. THE FAILURE OF EVOLUTION 
Evolution and Marriage 
Alfred R. Wallace, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. 

X. THE LATEST KNOWLEDGE 
Scientific Investigation and Progress 
Ira Remsen, LL.D., 
President of Johns Hopkins University 

XL OUR COUNTRY 
The Making of the Nation 
Woodrow Wilson, LL.D., 
President of Princeton University. 

Xil. PATRIOTISM AND POLITICS 
The Duties of Good Citizenship 
His Eminence James, Cardinal Gibbons. 

XIII. AMBITION 
The Conditions of Success 
Max Nordau, M.D., '' 
President of Congress of Zionists. 

XIV. OUR PAST 
The Lesson of the Past 
Maurice Maeterlinck. 

XV. ART 
The What and the How in Art 
William Dean Howells, A.M., L.H.D.. 

XVI. ART AND MORALITY 
Their Essential Union for Culture 
Ferdinand Brunetiere, LL.D., 
Ex-President of L'Academie
 Francaise. 

XVII. WOMAN 
Marriage Customs and Their Moral Value 
Elizabeth Diack, 
William S. Lilly, M.A., J.P., 
Secretary of the Catholic Society of Great Britain. 

XVIII. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE 
The Essential Equality of Man and Woman 
' Frances Cobbe, William K. Hill. 

XIX. SOCIETY 
The Role of Women in Society 
Lady Mary Ponsonby. 

XX. THE CHILD 
The Beginnings of the Mind 
H. G. Wells, B.Sc. 

XXI. LIFE'S INTERCOURSE 
Language as the Interpreter of Life 
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, LL.D., 
President of the University of California. 

XXII. THE BOY 
His Preparation for Manhood 
Daniel Coit Oilman, LL.D., 
Former President of Johns Hopkins University 
and of the Carnegie Institution. 

XXIII. HOW TO THINK 
Edward Everett Hale, LL.D., 
Chaplain of the United State^ Senate. 

XXIV. THE GIRL 
The Thing To Do 
Whitelaw Reid, LL.D., 
Chancellor of the University of the State of New 
York; Ambassador to England. 

XXV. MANHOOD 
Selection of One's Life-Work 
E. Benjamin Andrews, LL.D., 
President of the University of Nebraska. 

XXVI. THE COLLEGE GRADUATE 
• The College Man in Business 
Charles F. Thwing, LL.D.,
President of Western Reserve University. 

XXVII. SPORT 
The Mission of Sport and Outdoor Life 
Grover Cleveland, LL.D., 
Ex-President of the United States. 

XXVIII. THE TOILERS 

Labor Organizations in America 
Carroll D. Wright, LL.D., 
President of Clark College; former Labor Com- 
missioner of the United States. 

XXIX. THE SOIL 
Land and Its Ownership in the Past 
Alfred R. Wallace, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., 
President of the Land Naturalization Society. 

XXX. ANARCHISM 
Thou Shalt Not Kill 
Count Leo Tolstoi. 

XXXI. WAR 
A Demonstration of Its Futility 
David Starr Jordan, LL.D., 
President of Leland Stanford University; 

Carl Schurz, LL.D., 
Former United States Senator. 

XXXII. ARBITRATION 
A League of Peace 
Andrew Carnegie, LL.D., 
Lord Rector St. Andrews University. 

XXXIII. HISTORY 
Value oj History in the Formation oj Character 
Caroline Hazard, M.A., Litt.D., 
President of Wellesley College. 

XXXIV. THE POWER OF RELIGION 
Religion Still the Key to History 
Simeon Eben Baldwin, LL.D., 
Former President American Historical Associa- 
tion, Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale 
University. 

XXXV. CHRISTIANITY AND CIVILIZATION 
Social Culture in Education and Religion 
William T. Harris, LL.D., 
Former United States Commissioner of Education. 

XXXVI. THE MYSTERIES 
What Has Psychic Research Accomplished? 
William F. Barrett, F.R.S., J.P., 
Royal College, Dublin; former President of the 
Society for Psychical Research. 

XXXVII. HYPNOTISM 

Its History, Nature, and Use 
Harold M. Hays, M.D., 
Mount Sinai Hospital. 

XXXVIII. THE WILL 
Its Cultivation and Power 
Jules Finot, LL.D., 
Editor of the Revue. 

XXXIX. OUR HOPE 
The Unknown God 
Sir Henry Thompson, M.D. 

XL. OUR GOAL 
The Making of a National Spirit 
Edwin A. Alderman. LL.D., 
President of the University of Virginia. 

Education and Democracy 
George Harris, LL.D., 
President of Amherst College. 

FOREWORD 

WHEN, as sometimes happens, a tattered manuscript of medieval times is resurrected from amid forgotten rubbish heaps, scholars hesitate and argue as to the century of its  production. Accidental outward marks may guide them ; but as to the thought, the outlook, the opinions, there is little to discriminate one century from the next, or the next. Mankind did march onward, it is true, but with such slow step that they seemed often to he merely marking time without advance. The unsolved problems of one generation were still disputed by their children's children. 

Now, however, we move at railroad speed. The problems of to-day are not those of two decades ago and at such accelerating rate do we rush onward that soon a year may see changes such as once engrossed a century. Nay, so swiftly are we swept 
face to face with new issues that the dead past at times forgets to bury its dead. There are elderly gentlemen among us, held  by a comfortable income in some eddy of the current, who still  maintain that the only vital issue of to-day is England's attitude towards us in the Civil War or the fact that Japan began her modern career under our tutelage in 1834. 

To these pleasantly reminiscent gentlemen, charming after- 
dinner speakers, interesting relics of an extinct age, the present 
series of addresses can possess little interest, except for its ''new- 
ness," the radical spirit of its thought. But to more active brains, 
to the men who, in office, in factory, or in field, are "making the 
nation'' of to-day, it must have an obvious value. Each one 
of us is so busy in his own life that he cannot keep abreast of the 
lives of others. A well- known literary man, a twenty years^ 
graduate of my college, wrote me the other day for a copy of the 
college register. By mistake a clerk forwarded him instead a 
pamphlet containing the requisites for admission to the freshman 
class, whereon my literary friend wrote back to me, only half 
in jest, that despite my vigorous hint he must abandon any idea 
of retaking his college course, as he could not possibly pass the 
entrance examinations. 

The schools of to-day do not teach what was taught twenty 
years ago. Our colleges are wholly different institutions. The 
man who closed his scholastic education in the " eighties,^^
 perhaps even in the "nineties,''^ and went out into life, his brain 
awhirl with certain problems which he and his generation must 
some day solve perforce, that man is surprised now by stumbling, 
in his newspaper, on some casual reference to his special diffi- 
culty as a thing done with, dismissed, and half forgotten. He 
realizes for a moment that the age has somehow swept along with- 
out him, that progress has passed him by. Then, being a busy 
man, he turns again to his own personal problem, with perhaps 
only a half-formed wish that he had kept more nearly abreast 
of the times, a half -formed resolve that ''some day'' he will "read 
up'' again. 

To that man, and to every one among us who seeks to maintain
 the fulness of his heritage as " heir to all the ages, " is offered 
the present series of addresses. They give the most recent thought 
on each vital issue of the moment. They are written by men and 
women, the foremost leaders of the battle. Each name is a guarantee
 not only that the address is notable and worth the reading, 
but also that it is broadly thoughtful and deeply true. These 
are no hurried, superficial views, held to-day to be dismissed 
to-morrow ; they are the meditated opinions of the greatest 
specialists. Each address is worth incorporating into the 
reader's permanent body of thought, his outlook upon life. 

Several of the series have already received the stamp of public 
approval. They have been delivered as recent speeches, some 
before vast audiences of the people, others before learned societies, 
small bodies of the selected few. Surely, under such circum- 
stances if ever, under the criticism and approval of his fellow men, 
restrained from exaggeration by the sceptic's smile, stimulated 
to passion and power by the applause of all whose voiceless 
thoughts he has nobly interpreted in speech, then if ever does a 
speaker rise above his hearers, above himself, and become '^inspired." 
Essays of inspiration these, and needful indeed was 
it that their earnest words should not perish on the breeze that 
caught them, but should be here preserved in print and given 
permanent weight — heralded to a wider audience. Others of the 
series have been written specially for this occasion. Others again 
have appeared in some temporary printed shape, and are now 
given permanent form. These, wherever necessary, have been 
revised by the author, or under his supervision, for the present 
purpose. 

For there is a purpose, an ''increasing purpose," which 
runs through them all. They are liot a hap- hazard collection 
of famous speeches, chance thrown together. Their themes have 
been laboriously selected, their sequence studied, their expression 
placed in the hands of those best fitted for the task. Thus, though 
each author speaks upon a different subject, there is a carefully 
outlined harmony runs through the whole. Here is, in brief, 
not many books, but one book. Each address does but face an- 
other aspect of the same great riddle and gives a strong man's 
reading of its secret. Taken as a whole, the series may be found 
to answer better than any one volume could, better than any one 
man could, the question that faces each among us, the question
suggested by the title as to the meaning, the cause, and the issue 
of the life we live. 

A special introduction for this opening number of the series 
seems scarcely needful. Seth Low is so widely known for his 
long and honorable career, as President of Columbia University 
during its period of widest development, as Mayor of New York 
in days of peculiar stress and strain, as one of the foremost citizens 
of our land in every moment of need, that his voice must every- 
where receive attention, his views command respect. This 
address, delivered by him before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of 
Harvard, was published in the Atlantic Monthly and is here 
reproduced by the kind permission of the publishers, after being 
revised under Mr. Low^s supervision for its present use. It 
looks, as its title page suggests, over the general field of life, and 
indicates briefly the general character of some of the problems 
which the ensuing addresses must view at closer range. 

Perhaps he who will go step by step with our authors through 
each one's thought may before closing with the last find himself 
strengthened to give his own answer to the riddle. He may 
take a new attitude more confident, more self-assured towards 
life itself. 

C. F. H.