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argument but that of force. The ad-
-ventist, the spiritist, the pantheist, the theosophist, the
mind ceinst [scientist], and so on, kindled into enthusiasm
and dazed by marvels of seeming and temporary success, finally
turns and is amazed that all has changed
its form or vanished away.

These and similar specialists, tossed
in shallofs [shallows] of various Construction on the sea and
surge of the world's affairs, having failed
to take the helm of humanitys [humanity's] fateful craft,
are at last concerned with their personal safety most,
and add their voices to the wail of the world's
despair, and their feelings to its discontent.

It is not meant that these matters
are at all alike in intrinsic worth,
or genuine merit, or prospect of ul-
-timate success. They are simply alike,
for the present, perhaps only for the
present, in this, that they are baffled
and beaten back to the discourage-
-ment of friends, who are forced into
griefs, and rueful moods, and worlds.