hy materialism, Europa, or thy spiritualism, Asia, no
matter how trenchant and impregnable, no matter how deep the
foundation, how broad the superstructure thereof, is vulgar, narrow,
mean--is nothing, in a word, but parochialism.

"I swear that neither religious nor industrial slavery shall forever
hold the world in political servitude. No; the world shall be free of
the authority, absolute, blind, tyrannical, of both the Captains of
Industry and the High Priests of the Temple. And who shall help to
free it? Science alone can not do it; Science and Faith must do it.

"I say with thee, O Goethe, 'Light, more light!' I say with thee, O
Tolstoi, 'Love, more love!' I say with thee, O Ibsen, 'Will, more
will!' Light, Love, and Will--the one is as necessary as the other;
the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will, are
the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic
life.

"Light, Love, and Will--with corals and pearls from their seas would I
crown thee, O my City. In these streams would I baptise thy children,
O my City. The mind, and the heart, and the soul of man I would
baptise in this mountain lake, this high Jordan of Truth, on the
flourishing and odoriferous banks of Science and Religion, under the
sacred _sidr_ of Reason and Faith.

"Ay, in the Lakes of Light, Love, and Will, I would baptise all
mankind. For in this alone is power and glory, O my European Brothers;
in this alone is faith and joy, O my Brothers of Asia.

"The Hudson, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Thames, the Seine, the
Rhine, the Danube, the Euphrates, the Ganges--every one of these great
streams shall be such a Jordan in the future. In every one of them
shall flow the confluent Rivers of Light, Love, and Will. In every
one of them shall sail the barks of the higher aspirations and hopes
of mankind.

"I come now to be baptised, O my City. I come to slake my thirst in
thy Jordan. I come to launch my little skiff, to do my little work, to
pay my little debt.

"In thy public-squares, O my City, I would raise monuments to Nature;
in thy theatres to Poesy and Thought; in thy bazaars to Art; in thy
homes, to Health; in thy temples of worship, to universal Goodwill; in
thy courts, to Power and Mercy; in thy schools, to Simplicity; in thy
hospitals, to Faith; and in thy public-halls to Freedom and Culture.
And all these, without Light, Love, and Will, are but hollow affairs,
high-sounding inanities. Without L