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Show la Sherman ' ' " j Breaking Wild Aaaea? In the nam of the goda of Juatlce and of all the sons ef reason everywhere. every-where. Stewart K gherman'a admirers admir-ers may well ask. by what right does s morsllet who Instinctively restate all Innovation, venture ta sit down snd taks his case by the elde of s Whitman Whit-man who spent his life flahtlng ("-eta! ("-eta! oeneorahlp snd scsdemle neglect, by the sids of a Voltaire who ate his bread la ealle from hia owa lead because be-cause he could not egree with Us great tradition, by the elde of a aul who chose snd preached a new rellaloo In the teeth of deaperats perlla. br the elds of a Socrates whom the conserv-stlves conserv-stlves In ths most brUllant period ef human history rut to death because he held eplnlona with which they had aot yet csusht up? It might be reasonable reason-able for Mr. gherman to include euch sersone ta hie eoctcty of loved com-pantone com-pantone he viewed all Hie aa a drs-matlo drs-matlo apectacls upon which the wlee man ahould iook coolly, savoring Its tragedy with Its comedy, yet disinclined disin-clined to expect one outcome more thaa another; R le unreasonable for Mr. ghermss at oac te approve the reseUlone of the dead and to dlasp-rovs dlasp-rovs ths rebellions of the living. Agaiast every aovel scbeme for I overtime ov-ertime msnklnd or for solving ths the probleme of the economic life sir. Phermas has resolutely set his lace. The euestlon Is simply whether the ace end Its convictions snd its tendencies ten-dencies are aa barren as be haa man-seed man-seed to make OWL If they are. he hss waste hie great strsngth In trying to break wild asses which had better beea left among their congenial thta-ties. thta-ties. Carl Vis Dorsa to lbs August r-enlin-V |