Plague-Sight . — If deadly germs were capable of conscious retrospection, they would be able to look back upon the advance of their own kin...

Forfeit . — “A genuine social organism can no longer be linked up with this ageing Europe; such has been forfeit since 1789.” [“Einen w...

Great Littleness . — There is no growth of culture without rest and settlement, and every culture worthy of the name begins in the little f...

Something in Return . — It is a happy requital for those who play their part in scoffing at the idea of human importance that they can feel...

A Vibrant Corpse . — No aim strikes the latter-day European as more sinister, or is likely to fill him with more loathing, than that of the...

Safeguard . — “The heredity of the throne is the guarantee of all heredity and the safeguard of all inheritances.” [1] What hereditary lor...

A Self-Stuffing Animal . — “Fortune spoils, coddles, lulls, and isolates men, and peoples too; whereas misfortune keeps them awake, stirs, ...

Other Powers. — “Of the various powers and faculties we possess, there are some which nature seems both to have planted and reared, so as t...

Radical Conservative Reaction. — All conservatism worthy of the name is radical. It is little but a name for something petty if it does not...

A New Fetish. — “Then all of a sudden . . . a number of impious creatures arrived on the scene, uttering the rankest blasphemies; these we...