...plateau with fewer and fewer undulations, without contrasts or oppositions — such will be the future aspect of human society. The statistician will register...progress of things, on the other a decline of souls. ... Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era ? May not the general well-being be purchased...

...individuals. By continual levelling and division of labor, society will become everything and man nothing. The statistician will register a growing progress,...economy, of religion ; and arithmetic, of poetry." And, again, in still more hopeless strain: "Everywhere, you see a tendency to substitute the laws of...

...become everything and man nothing. ... A plateau with fewer and fewer undulations, without contrasts aud without oppositions — such will be the aspect of...political economy of religion, and arithmetic of poetry. He writes to himself a sort of " spiritual letter " that might almost have been Fenelon's (the date...

...mountains, what is average will rise at the expense of what is great. The exceptional will disappear. . . . The statistician will register a growing progress,...moralist a gradual decline : on the one hand, a progress in things ; on the other, a decline of souls. The useful will take the place of the beautiful, industry...

...mountains, what is average will rise at the expense of what is great. The exceptional will disappear. . . . The statistician will register a growing progress, and the moralist a gradual 5?™^^ decline : on the one hand, a progress in things ; on the other, a decline of souls. The useful...

...runs a great risk of seeing no more true individuals. By continued leveling and division of labor, society will become everything and man nothing. "As...of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a leveling age. "Is this indeed the fate reserved for the democratic era ? May not the general \v ellbeing...

...be the aspect of human society, if things go on as they are tending. The statistician will, perhaps, register a growing progress and the moralist, a gradual...of religion; and arithmetic, of poetry. The spleen is becoming the malady of the leveling age. May not the general well-being be purchased too dearly...

...translation is by Mrs. Humphry Ward, and is reprinted with the permission of The Macmillan Company. washing down of the mountains, what is average will...of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a leveling age. 4 How much have we not to learn from the Greeks, those immortal ancestors of ours! And...

...translation is by Mrs. Humphry Ward, and is reprinted with the permission of The Macmillan ' Company. washing down of the mountains, what is average will...of poetry. The spleen will become the malady of a leveling age. 4. How much have we not to learn from the Greeks, those immortal ancestors of ours! And...

...especially to the alleviation of the lot of prisoners." Amiel's prophecy, that in the age of democracy "the useful will take the place of the beautiful,...political economy of religion, and arithmetic of poetry" has been changed by the counter Utopians to read "in an age of communism." The head of the College...