Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . atification have imposedupon the native and normal instinctsof the common run of man-kind, andmore especially the instincts of curiosityand workmanship. While men live theirdisposition to unfold toward the lightcannot be balked with impunity. Therepression of the normal instincts, thedenial of opportunities for free spiritualgrowth results as by a law of nature insporadic violence, insurrection, or great task of democratic statesman-ship to-day is to understand these inbredinstincts and dynamic impulses of thecommon ru
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . atification have imposedupon the native and normal instinctsof the common run of man-kind, andmore especially the instincts of curiosityand workmanship. While men live theirdisposition to unfold toward the lightcannot be balked with impunity. Therepression of the normal instincts, thedenial of opportunities for free spiritualgrowth results as by a law of nature insporadic violence, insurrection, or great task of democratic statesman-ship to-day is to understand these inbredinstincts and dynamic impulses of thecommon run of mankind and to findchannels for their fruitful release. Onlyso can the pre-war governmental andsocial structure of our political democra-cies be adapted to withstand the un-precedented currents of hope and aspira-tion set in motion by the war. The testof governmental capacity will increas-ingly be the ability of those in positionsof authority to find ways and means forthe democratization of educational op-portunity. Shining Armor BY MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT. ON BOEHN has twistedhimself in and out ofmy life considerably, orrather, I have twistedhim in and out of it, forI doubt if by now heremembers ever havingmet me. He wouldnt; he was a Prus-sian aristocrat, and I at best merely anAmerican who at one time had, fromhis point of view, the extreme goodfortune of meeting him and the furtherextreme honor of knowing him for awhile with some degree of intimacy. It wasnt because I liked von Boehn,you understand, that for a year or twoI saw him frequently; I didnt likehim at all, even then, although I wasyoung and counts possessed a glamour,particularly a count who appeared inall the picturesqueness of a Uhlan uni-form, and although in himself vonBoehn had a certain blond impeccablecharm. He was very good-looking; slim,clean-cut, rosy-cheeked, blue-eyed. Youwould find it difficult to describe thedash and smartness of him in his tight-fitting breeches and his yellow-breastedjacket and
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