NOTES.
[27] Mr. James Branch Cabell has in his Beyond Life defended man's romantic longings and inexorable craving to live part of the time at least in a world far more sweetly molded to his fancy than that of natural science and political economy. There is no reason why man should live by bread alone. There is a time, however, for natural science and political economy, for they should establish the conditions in which we may rejoice in our vital lies, which will then do no harm and bring much joy.
[28] The relation of our kinesthesia or muscular sense to fanaticism on the one hand and freedom of mind on the other is a matter now beginning to be studied with the promise of highly important results.
[29] Drift and Mastery, pp. 196-197.
[30] G. Stanley Hall, "The Message of the Zeitgeist", in Scientific Monthly, August, 1921—a very wonderful and eloquent appeal by one of our oldest and boldest truth seekers.
[31] Delineator, August, 1921, p. II.
[32] Adopting Mr. Veblen's definition of a vested interest which caused some scandal in conservative circles when it was first reported. Doubtless the seeming offensiveness of the latter part of the definition obscured its reassuring beginning.
[33] See Section 2 above.
[34] The wise Goethe has said, "Zieret Stärke den Mann und freies, muthiges Wesen, O, so ziemet ihm fast tiefes Geheimniss noch mehr", —Römische Elegien, xx.
[35] The closing reflections are borrowed from The Leaflet, issued by the students of the New School for Social Research, established in New York in 1919, with a view of encouraging adults to continue their studies in the general spirit and mood which permeate this essay.