Enforced peace; . devastated: it hasdisillusioned. In the Ufe of every successful man therecomes an hour of maximum peril and of supreme has struggled with difficulty and with disappoint-ment ; so far he has been safe. Then, perhaps suddenly,achievement and recognition have awakened in him anew and intoxicating sense of power. As before hisimagination exaggerated difficulties to be overcome, sonow his judgment imderestimates the obstacles withwhich he has yet to contend. The day wiU come whenhe wiQ find himself responsible for the performance of ob-ligations that will tax all his stren
Enforced peace; . devastated: it hasdisillusioned. In the Ufe of every successful man therecomes an hour of maximum peril and of supreme has struggled with difficulty and with disappoint-ment ; so far he has been safe. Then, perhaps suddenly,achievement and recognition have awakened in him anew and intoxicating sense of power. As before hisimagination exaggerated difficulties to be overcome, sonow his judgment imderestimates the obstacles withwhich he has yet to contend. The day wiU come whenhe wiQ find himself responsible for the performance of ob-ligations that will tax all his strength, call for the perfectplay of his intellectual powers, and demand the utmoststeadfastness of an unfaltering purpose. Only when hehas come safely through this ordeal, and has been triedas by fire, wiU he know himself as he is, and the world asit is. As with the individual man so with the nation; sowith mankind. Nations that have slowly grown through centuries ofpoverty and relative obscurity have suddenly found. FRANKLIN H. GIDDINGS, , , Professor of Sociology and History of Civilization, Columbia Uni-versity ENFORCED PEACE 171 themselves important in the worlds affairs. Face toface with obligations, in arrogance and overweening con-fidence they have rushed upon destruction, or, measur-ing themselves truly and organizing their resourcesefEectively, they have written imperishable lines uponthe scroU of history. In the nineteenth century the whole world of Westerncivilization awoke to the realization of achievement andto a consciousness of power for which no parallel, orprecedent, or dream, had prepared the human mind orthe moral forces of character. Through experimentalscience a new mastery over physical nature had been at-tained. Material wealth, and the enjoyments which ityields, so grew and multiphed that even trainedeconomists began to speak lightly, as of discrediteddogmas, of the laws of diminishing return and popula-tion increase. It was obvious that this
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