Lecture Four

There are other things, however, in these days which are out of harmony—you need only bring a serious study of life to bear on some of the descriptive accounts, reflective accounts, which tell you how in this twentieth century mankind has come such a wonderfully long way in humane feeling and understanding between peoples! From the beginning of the century you will find high-sounding articles—whole books—on these lines, written with unction and heavily sugared, so that a properly progressive man of to-day could take in this picture of his times as though he were tasting honey.