lessons of evolution, which Nature has been teaching men since
and before the days of Socrates, the public store of reason is
gradually taking the place of the once-needed leader. From the
Chaldean tablet to the wireless message this public store has
been wonderfully opened. The results of these lessons, the
possibilities they are offering for ever coordinating the mind of
humanity, the culmination of this age-instruction, are seen today
in many ways. Labor Federation, Suffrage Extension, are two
instances that come to mind among the many. In these
manifestations, by reason of tradition, or the bad-habit part of
tradition, the hog-mind of the few (the minority), comes in play.
The possessors of this are called leaders, but even these "thick-
skins" are beginning to see that the MOVEMENT is the leader, and
that they are only clerks. Broadly speaking, the effects
evidenced in the political side of history have so much of the
physical because the causes have been so much of the physical. As
a result the leaders for the most part have been under-average
men, with skins thick, wits slick, and hands quick with under-
values, otherwise they would not have become leaders. But the day
of leaders, as such, is gradually closing--the people are
beginning to lead themselves--the public store of reason is
slowly being opened--the common universal mind and the common
over-soul is slowly but inevitably coming into its own. "Let a
man believe in God, not in names and places and persons. Let the
great soul incarnated in some poor...sad and simple Joan, go out
to service and sweep chimneys and scrub floors...its effulgent
day beams cannot be muffled..." and then "to sweep and scrub will
instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...and all people
will get brooms and mops." Perhaps, if all of Emerson--his works
and his life--were to be swept away, and nothing of him but the