Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1919 — The Storm of the World Unrest [ARTICLE]

The Storm of the World Unrest

r From the Christian Science Monitor

One of the most curious delusions of the human mind is the claim, put forward for it by one of the greatest of English writers, that it can ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm. It can, it is quite true, create storms, sometimes in teacups, and sometimes out of them. But the one thing, in the very necessity of its own inharmony, it cannot do is to control its own handiwork. It is this which has brought the new renaissance into being; it is this which really is riding the whirlwind, and directing the storm of the world unrest of today; and it is this which is ultimately going to bring order out of chaos. What, of course, has raised the storm is the power of truth in dominating the human consciousness to the point when a collision be-