The sectional fires have quite gone out.

Yet behold the schemes of revolution claiming the regenerative.

Most of them call themselves the "uplift!" Let us agree at once that all government is more or less a failure; society as fraudulent as the satirists describe it; yet, when we turn to the uplift--particularly the professional uplift--what do we find but the same old tunes, hypocrisy and empiricism posing as "friends of the people," preaching the pussy gospel of "sweetness and light ?" "Words, words, words," says Hamlet.

Even as veteran writers for the press have come through disheartening experience to a realizing sense of the futility of printer's ink must our academic pundits begin to suspect the futility of art and letters.

Words however cleverly writ on paper are after all but words.