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THE NEW IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT =The Editor= 1 THE MAJORITY JUGGERNAUT =Fabian Franklin= 22 THE DEMOCRAT REFLECTS =Grant Showerman= 34 THE NEW MORALITY =Paul Elmer More= 47 PROFESSOR BERGSON AND PSYCHICAL RESEARCH =The Editor= 63 TWO NEGLECTED VIRTUES =F. J. Mather, Jr.= 112 THE UNFERMENTED CABINET =E. S. Martin= 124 A NEEDED UNPOPULAR REFORM =H. B. Brougham= 133 OUR TOBACCO: ITS COST =Henry W. Farnam= 145 OUR ALCOHOL: ITS USE =Clayton Hamilton= 163 THE MICROBOPHOBIAC =Grant Showerman= 175 THE STANDING INCENTIVES TO WAR =David Starr Jordan= 185 THE MACHINERY FOR PEACE =H. B. Brougham= 200 EN CASSEROLE: Tobacco and Alcohol--Answering Big Questions--Decency and the Stage--What's the Matter with our Colleges? (VERNON L. KELLOGG)--Proportionate News (F. J. MATHER, JR.)--Simplified Spelling 212
THE SOUL OF CAPITALISM =Alvin S. Johnson= 227 A SOCIOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE =W. P. Trent= 245 SOCIAL UNTRUTH AND THE SOCIAL UNREST =Fabian Franklin= 252 NATURAL ARISTOCRACY =Paul Elmer More= 272 THE RIGHT TO BE AMUSED =F. J. Mather, Jr.= 297 HOW WOMAN SUFFRAGE HAS WORKED =H. B. Brougham= 307 THE BABY AND THE BEE =Vernon L. Kellogg= 333 THE CASE FOR PIGEON-HOLES =Grant Showerman= 343 THE GREEKS ON RELIGION AND MORALS =Emily J. Putnam= 358 OUR SUBLIME FAITH IN SCHOOLING =Calvin Thomas= 375 THE BARBARIAN INVASION =Warner Fite= 389 TRUST-BUSTING AS A NATIONAL PASTIME =Henry R. Seager= 406 OUR GOVERNMENT SUBVENTION TO LITERATURE =Charles W. Burrows= 415 EN CASSEROLE: Special to our Readers--A Specimen of "Uplift" Legislation--A Model of Divinatory Criticism (CALVIN THOMAS)--Some Deserving "Climbers"--Simplified Spelling 431
We call it new. Yet there is nothing new under the sun--which statement, like most proverbs, is but a half truth.
The world has always been full of irrepressible conflicts, and will be as long as life is worth living in it--and longer. There was one between centrifugal and centripetal force, at the very start (assuming a start), when the star dust began to whirl, and all that have been since have been but differentiations from it. Old ones are between sex-instinct and monogamy, between license and order, or call it liberty and authority if you please, or freedom and slavery. Sex-instinct, license, liberty, freedom are centrifugal; monogamy, order, authority, even slavery, are centripetal. The conflict between freedom and slavery gave rise to the phrase The Irrepressible Conflict. It came through Seward at the time of the Civil War.