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Show SOCIAL PRINCIPLES. "The pocisl Principle." hy Horace Holley. Pubiishej bv Gomme & Marshall, New York. Like the early Chi istians. Mr. Holley t ' ars his calendar from t h wall ; with him "ft is not th year IMS but the year one." jie sees humanity at the threshold thresh-old of a new and marvelous era and bid it not nmk the mistake ma de re n-turis n-turis aeo by those "Wan lamented he passinz of the piory that was ;reece he- a us t hv mi!H not ra I17 Die comi tig of tiie ecstasy that was Gc-d." Perhaps in that era hi? "Social Principle" will be leahzed -"The fact rhar snHMy t composed com-posed of recurrAnt types and that each type ha a function whlcp combines individual indi-vidual freedom and happiness with Increased In-creased social control." This gospel of h hieher i ndi vidua lim is set forth hy Mr. HoI'iav in a prose at nuce eloquent and lucid, and is tremendously tremen-dously significant as showlnc the ten-depcv ten-depcv of the youneer Amriea n intellectuals, intellec-tuals, where, as in th rap of Mr. Holley. an amount of poetic fns;ht is combined with a fin flavor of Intellectual adventure. adven-ture. It Is in a measure a restatement of the Christian teaching of love of the neighbor which. Mr. Holley savs. "put too much responsibility on men embittered em-bittered by false social relations. " In the new order, when right sociaJ conditions are realized, a saner idea of this love will also prevail based on a man's ability to perceive in others not potential enemies hut actual co-operators. In a word Mr. Holley demonstrates man's right to be his best self and not something some-thing else -which society un philosophically wants him to be. |