Show A realistic literature of hope always warns Us against optimism by GLENN FRANK in century magazine while mooning 0 copti optimists mists may write a literature that will give us tho the spirit of hope only responsible sei scientists enlists entis ts philosophers administrators and authentic spiritual seers can write a literature that will give us tile the anatomy Rna tonly of hope social cheer leaders might do a little toward dulling the despair of a new dark ages but only social engineers can usher in a new renaissance A realistic literature of hope has nothing in common with the facile and foolhardy optimism of men who regard optimism cism as a profession rather than a deduction from the facts in the case it is then a literature of hope not a literature of optimism that I 1 am discussing asing here between the two there may be a difference as wide as the world A literature of optimism may bo be a literature that creates in us merely a spirit of expectancy that blindly believes a renaissance lies ahead A literature of hope is a literature that uncovers for fo us tho the unused resources of health in our civilization and suggests 0 to us a workable for using them and a realistic literature of hope always warns us against optimism unless we set ourselves manfully at work to harness the forces of health it lias has pointed out to us |