A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY

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preparing for. The panorama unrolled before the mind was never more gorgeous: a new renaissance revealing reaches unimagined; prophesying splendour unimaginable; unveiling mysteries of time and space and natural law and human potency.

Archæology uncovers with a spade the world of Ariadne and of Minos, of Agamemnon and of Priam. Where Jason launched the Argo, paintings are unearthed that antedate Apelles. Mummied crocodiles disgorge their papyri:

and we read the administrative record of the Ptolemies. Bacchylides breaks the silence of centuries; himself Menander mounts the stage, and in no borrowed Roman sock; and Aristotle reappears to shed fresh light upon the constitution of the Athenians.

History availing herself of cognate sciences deciphers documents and conditions anew; and the vision of the past is reinterpreted in terms of social and economic actuality. Emigrations and conquests become a modern tale of commerce and industrial stress. Cæsar and Agrippina, Cromwell and Marie Antoinette, are all to read again; and the Bard of Venusia acquires a new and startling modernity as the literary advance agent of a plutocratic wine firm. As in a "glass prospective" literature is viewed; and kaleidoscopic transformations of gest and bal

lad, epic and drama, cross-sections of the crypt of fiction, dazzle the eye of critic and philologist and poet.

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With golden keys of psychology, history and philology, the anthropologist unlocks the mind of primitive man. student of the holier things invades the Temple itself; and from day to day the sacramental doors swing back on agelong galleries of worship.

Taking fresh heart of ethics, economics wears a new and most seductive smile. No longer the minimizing of material cost, but the maximizing of vital value, she regards. She seeks the psychic income, the margin of leisure for the soul, the margin of health for the body: the greatest of national assets the true wealth of nations. To the modern problems of social and political theory and of jurisprudence, of municipal and