keeps ignited the fire of international jealousy which is for universal incendiarism, a fearful orgy of devastation. The mischief of the infection of this moral aberration is great because today the human races have come close together and any process of destruction once set going does its work in an enormously wholesale manner. Knowing all this could I be credited to having played my fiddle while an unholy fire was being fed with human sacrifice P I was greatly amused in reading in a Fascist organ how the writer vehemently decrying panthcistic philosophy of the passive and meditative last, comparing with it the vigorous self-assertion and fury of cfficiency which he acknowledges to have been borrowed by his people from their modern schoolmasters in America. This has suggested to my mind the possibility of the idea of Fascism being an infection from across the Atlantic. The unconscious irony in this paper lies in the fact of the writel's using with unction the name of Christanity in this context, the religion which had its origin in the East. He evidently does not realise that if Christ were born again in this world he would forcibly have heen turned back from New York had he come there from outside, if for nothing else,
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