love and for hate; and without these tremendous incitements not the
least or greatest among us can reach the limit of his powers."

"True, and perhaps that explains the present European attitude. The
war has left us incapable of any supreme activity. Enthusiasm is
dead; consequently the enthusiasm of good-will lacks from our
councils and we drift, without any great guiding hand upon the
tiller of destiny. Heart and brains are at odds, groping on
different roads instead of advancing together by the one and only
road. We see no great men. There are, of course, leaders, great by
contrast with those they lead; but history will declare us a
generation of dwarfs and show how, for once, man stood at a crisis
of his destiny when those mighty enough to face it failed to appear.
Now that is a situation unparalleled in my knowledge of the past.
Until now, the hour has always brought the man."

"We drift, as you say," answered Ganns, dusting his white waistcoat.
"We are suffering from a sort of universal shell shock, Albert; and
from my angle of observation I perceive how closely crime depends
upon nerves. Indifference in the educated takes the shape of
lawlessness in the masses; and the breakdown of our economical laws
provokes to fury and despair. Our equilibrium is gone in every
direction. For example the balance between work and recreation has
been destroyed. This restless condition will take a decade of years
to control, and the present craving for that excitement, to which we
were painfully accustomed during the years of war, is leaving a
marked and dangerous brand on the minds of the rising generation.
From this restlessness to criminal methods of satisfying it is but a
step.

"We are sick; our state is pathological. What we need is a renewal
of the discipline that enabled us to confront and conquer in the
past struggle. We must drill our nerves, Albert, and strive to
restore a balanced and healthy outlook for those destined to run the
world in future. Men are not by nature lawless. They are rational
beings in the lump; but civilization, depending as it does on creed
and greed, has made no steps as yet, through education, to arrest
our superstition and selfishness."

"Once let the light of good-will in upon this chaos and we should
see order beginning to return," declared Mr. Redmayne. "The problem
is how to promote good-will, my dear friend. This should be the
great and primal concern of religion; for what, after all