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1Nie-Vows V. V. militant, mometary, to the opening one, that of a neo technic civilisation, founded upon more skilled and scientific industries and arts, and aiming towards truer peace than any which can be guaranteed by armour ; and towards these ends sustained alike by synthetic intelligence and by creative Idealism. On one side is the present dominant Civilisation-of Coal and steam, of machinery and cheap products, of expanding markets and widening empires-themselves groaning under ever increasing armaments, torn by fiscal disputes, and ruled by the financiers' assumed omnipotenge. * * * Even the 'progress' of which it has boasted so much is too little to be estimated in quality of life, however easily in quantity. wherever any words be said of progress in quality of civilisation and of life towards its ideals, then there is silence ; or if that will not answer, a very tumult of utilitarians and paleotects crying out with one voice "Away with these Utopions ! Yet the advance quietly making in Our Own generation, since Ruskin was thus hooted out of Economics is that his prophecies of the final social economy we here call neo-technic are actually coming to pass. The practical Utopians are already at work, and even drafting, as here, their historic estimate of the receding