Nelson's Famous Signal Before The Battle Of

Life Is Made Too Easy. Mankind's Moral Fibre Is Giving Way Under The Softening Influence Of Luxury.

If, Then, This Civilization Is To Be Saved, If It Is Not To Be Submerged By Centuries Of Barbarism, But To Secure The Treasures Ofits Inheritance On New And More Stable Foundations, There Is Indeed Need For Those Now Living Fully To Realize How Far The Decay Has Already Progressed.

When The World Was Half A Thousand Years Younger All Events Had Much Sharper Outlines Than Now. The Distance Between Sadness And Joy, Between Good And Bad Fortune, Seemed To Be Much Greater Than For Us; Every Experience Had That Degree Of Directness And Absoluteness Which Joy And Sadness Still Have In The Mind Of A Child

Most Thoughtful Americans Of Today Seem To Have Forgotten How Strongly Their Own And Immediate Predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne And Whitman, Were Still Preoccupied With The Essence Behind Things.

The Modern City Hardly Knows A Pure Darkness Or True Silence Anymore, Nor Does It Know The Effect Of A Single Small Light Or That Of A Lonely Distant Shout.