The tyranny of shams

Joseph Mccabe

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• Social Problems (journal)
• Great Britain

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 7
• Langue: English
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TYRANNY OF SHAMSTHETHE
TYRANNY OF SHAMS
BY
McCABEJOSEPH
" "
AUTHOR OF A CANDID HISTORY OF THE JESUITS
"THB IRON CARDINAL" ETC.
NEW YORK
MEAD & COMPANYDODD,
1916in Great BritainPrintedPREFACE
THIS book is a frank of thecriticism of most
dominant ideas and institutions of our time : a
confession of faith allin the more daringnearly
heresies which so to line of ourthehold, say, firing
:literature a of a new social order andconception
new It is can-thereforearrangement.planetary
and I should like to thedidly egoistic, explain
circumstances in which it was written.anddesigned
It was and much of it wasconceived, written,
the from Australia toduring long England.voyage
At thethat time I had if I includeissued, may
introduction to readers of writers,English foreign
some Iand in these hadfifty publications, generally
described remote of or even remoterperiods history,
of the or of theearth's distantperiods story regions
universe. had asked me to tell themMany things
more and than the in whichintimate important way
stars were or the manners of extinct Dino-formed,
saurs and ancient : asked ifempresses thirty years'
of and hadscience, givenstudy philosophy, history
me no interest or the of thein, light upon, problems
hour. In Australasia this was made morerequest
havethan ever. Our ancientinsistently prejudices
been into the soil of the new world,transplantedvi PREFACE
like the theand have thriven there, gorse,they
the and so other whichrabbit,sparrow, many pests
introduced in order tosentimental colonists have
"
remind them of home." But new ideas also
have been and find a rich soil inimported, they
the colonial mind.free, unconventional, enterprising
Men and women are the same thereasking questions
as in London and New York.
The drift or of thesegeneral implication questions
obsessed me the slow traverse of the
daily during
Southern Ocean. after the linerDay day great
rounded this vast ball of metal which we call
visibly
our earth and to me there is no more
; impressive
than this of the and the future ofsymbol power
man. theSome that at sea feelcomplain they
earth and man and man's concerns made trivial
the fires which blaze the darkergreatby through
. But is not and a vastsky. largeness greatness,
in some inaccessible does not makeprairie region
less the little of earth at doorprecious plot your
that can make beautiful. Youryou predominant
when round the and see withfeeling, you globe your
own its is one of Thislimitations, power.eye
is of man andthesphere, feel, ;you principality
there neverwas a so andpower despotic far-reaching
as the of a united race would be. You feelpower
as if the earth could ofbe embraced in the arms
a and is the If men weregiant, humanity giant.
in their the earth would be asagreed designs, clay
in the hand of the It aspotter. prove
and tractable as the child's ball ofpassive plasticine