two novels
of high quality which Holland was proud of and which were read in several
languages, but why did not the people read novels of a high character as
much as they did the poorer ones?

He decided that it was because people were physically underorganized and
not whole in body and mind--like the Greeks, and became a physician.

He thought he was being thorough when he became a physician but soon
found that he was not getting down to the causes after all, of people's
not having whole bodies and fine senses capable of appreciating the finer
things and soon came to the conclusion that for the most part what was
the matter with their bodies was due to what was wrong in their habits of
thought and in their minds, and became an alienist and founded the first
psycho-therapeutic hospital in Holland.

He then found that in what was the matter with people's minds, he was
still superficial and that people's minds were wrong because of the
social and industrial conditions, ideals and institutions under which
they were conceived and born, and had to live.

He then devoted himself to being a publicist and sociologist, had charge
of bread for the poor during the great bread riots in Amsterdam and is
now engaged in grappling nationally and internationally with industrial
and civil war as the cause of all failures of men and nations to express
and fulfill their real selves in the world.

Any nation that wants to be a great nation and to fulfill and express
itself and be a first class nation will sooner or later find that it has
to go on from one individual personal interest to another until it finds
it is doing practically what Frederick Van Eeden did.

The only way to look out for, or to express oneself is to try to help
everybody else to.

The Red Cross at the end of the war in making elaborate and international
arrangements to run a pleasant and complimentary ambulance to the relief
of disease in society that society was deliberately creating every day,
instead of taking advantage at the end of the war of the trust all
classes had in it, and taking advantage of the attention of forty
nations, of society's best and noblest need, to keep society from causing
the disease, chose to be superficial, faced away from its vision, fell
behind the people, absconded from the leadership of the world.

The aches and pains of society with which since the war, the Red Cross so
politely and elegantly deals, which with white kid gloves