Excerpt from In Quest of Prosperity
In spite of the great number of unsolved problems which now distress humanity Professor William James has not hesitated to add a new one. He wants to know "Where we are to find a moral equivalent in times of peace for the heroic virtues developed by war." "The horrors of war," he says, "is a cheap price to pay for a rescue from a world of clerks and teachers, coeducation and zoophily, of consumers leagues and associated charities of industrialism unlimited and feminism unabashed. No scorn, no hardness, no valor any more? Fie upon such a cattleyard of a planet."
It may be true, from the standpoint of Pragmatism that heroism has departed from the rich and has therefore departed from the world, but to many people "the cattle yard of a planet" does not appear so conspicuously. Among the common folk who retain a faith in God and who give to truth and love important places in the eternal fitness of things, the world is full of poetry, is of surpassing beauty and is not devoid of heroism.
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