The Globe, Vol. 13 ~ Paperback ~ Unknown Author

Excerpt from The Globe, Vol. 13: A New Review of World-Literature, Society, Religion, Art and Politics The dawn of the twentieth century, so loudly heralded, finds all nations of the world pretty well down at the heel and badly in need of repairs. At the same time, it must be admitted that the national and international cobblers, called kings, presidents, statesmen, governors, senators, philosophers and newspaper hacks, are hammering away at the old soles or souls, spell it as you will, of modern empire, and in their untaught, incapable and selfish way arc trying with no small sweat and industry to stop the soles from leaking and to put the heels and uppers in some sort of walking condition. We mean no disrespect to statesmen, so-called, or the nations in speaking thus to them as so many cobblers working on worn-out shoes. All civilization has been defined as a matter of clothes. Writers at all familiar, however, with the primitive habits of the tropical and unclothed peoples, are largely of the opinion that pure morality, which is at the basis of all true civilization, what is called civilization, without it being simply a more or less gaudily painted and shallow hypocrisy, nevertheless, that true morality predominates and dominates the unclothed rather than the clothed nations and peoples. It is a delicate question, perhaps too delicate for modern American drawing-rooms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.