The Communes have been proved inadequate; but there is no nationality.

Practical positivism has obliterated the virtues of a chivalrous and feudal past; but science has not yet been born.

Scholarship floods the world with the learning of antiquity; but this knowledge is still undigested.

Art triumphs; but the aesthetic instinct has invaded the regions of politics and ethics, owing to defective analysis in theory, and in practice to over-confident reliance on personal ability.

The individual has attained to freedom; but he has not learned the necessity of submitting his volition to law.