SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 1)222

THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE

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A History Professor Tells the Truth
(A Reviewb yy .. ). E.) poetry in the biological aspect of love, pulse and counterpulse, eruptions and li erties are deprived right and left;
It is only when my enemies have antd he is instantly heralded from all interuptions that have attended pro- reformers go snooping up back alleys
been especially dentnicatory that T pulpits as a carnal "free-lover" who is oigrss and civilization. Ile goes from with search-warrants sniffing for
sure to fry in hell, and the profes- zephyrs of evaporating liquor; spies
feel happy, that I fall into a mood sorial critics impale him on their pens Greek to Galileo, and alas, from Gali- food all the music and dance halls
decent enough to do justice to a really in 'their next book on the great liter- leo to W. Gamaliel Harding, and thus and forsms; and Christian zealots bar
good book; and for the last week they ature of America! winds up his book with a survey ofI ooks from the mais.
"Normaly," and the "Safety and San-1
have been as thoroughly dull and oh- By now, some of you are thinking "o a. t "Sfty i an- All this may happen it one block
git" of itias. Te Iictre is tpainfusl tP atot esItsotio teton
Iuse as a Sunday school class. In- that you will not enjoy this book, that to tehold. Col sot, I om oo sooial- t ttile a m n gets ttnked on the dome
deed, I suspect them of being members its writer is oly another flippant and ist; indeed I am opposed to their thseo- in the next, the poie either being
o ilamboyant attacker of sacred tradi- ries, but if our government isn't more none the wiser to the latter action or
of some such organization. tions o sthallow and pretentious fel- raetionary tian thse of the Mettern- tot caring a whoop about it. Big con-
In consequence. I feel incapable of low, such as myself, only vastly better ichian era, tihen say i ito setteei cresswallowt p the little ones and
doing a good review of one of ths best because he has had a book published. to strangulation in a vat of carboized tigst tny new att sangerous etter-
books published in this country for Well, you are, in this case, erring alcohol. Big business utterly domi- prise to its death, or to its engulfing.
over a dozen years. It is "The Mind slightly. Robinson takes up the busi- nates the country; Justice con be Thuss, the rubber interests have fought
in the Makting," titarpers) by Jattes ness with utter solemnity. He does bought at only profiteer's prices, and (Continued on Page 8)
Harvey Robinson. not joke about the appalling spec-
Robinson has apparentlyitired of tacle; there is neither froth nor_--_.---
the great national palaver atout frenzy; the csapters'of his book wee
Democracy, the Freedom of the World. s not written between cocktails.
the Soul. Business First, Norsmacy. fOne thing that particularly delights A t
Hundred-per-cent-Anericanisnm, of the tme is Robinson's treatment of the W ah r'
daily newspapers. of historians who "soul." Ile shows that this is no sub-
respect all the hocus above mentioned, 'lime conception, that it is no product
of Congressional speeches and Rotary of the superior mind, that, on the con-
clubs, and of such sporadic phenom- trary, the most primitive and barbar- Agents for the
ena as "Thel Man Who itas Never ous peoples have held the theory of
Been Kissed," of Frosh-bites, of thee the soul, and that, as men become(3-be -'AJ'en ick
national system of education; in brief moore civilized, the less certain they G 1b -W ern i
of all the expressions, results, prod- are about it. Robinson might have
acts, and hullaballoo of the knaves gone further along this line if be had Sectional Bookcases Filing C abinets
and fools with which this country cared to. I cannot help but wish that
seems particularly blessed. Having he had buttonholed an immortalist Filing Cabinet Supplies
professed history in one of our great and made him tell at just what stage
uiversities, and perhaps still profess- the osul came in evolution, or how i F
ing it for all that I know, Robinson soon it comes from heaven before or Office Furniture
probably felt a peculiar and unrenoit- after the fusion of sperm and oVa
ting pressure of nonsensicalities, and But still, perhaps I expect too mtuh Special Discount Prices
no doubt the pressure brought about so 00 1humbly applaudi Robinsons a
a reaction whih now atons us to fa ias se went. Won't someone next iet our Prices before
read a vigorous and clear-''ded bit take up and show this matter of "will- placing your order
of thought and writinsg. powr' to e mer'ly ot r'ac iot O
What has Robinson to say? Namely. graduates, are not aware of it, and
that only the men of science have the nervous system overweighing an-
shown consistent progress; that the 1other. To be sure, this has already
social and political reformers are still been shown in the medical books, but
accepting, respecting, and attempting nine-tenths of persons, even college
to appoly outworn ideas; and that the hence they gravely accept the so-call-
religionists are not helping matters ed "will-power" and memory experts
at all by being still further behind; (especially those with active pineal WaIr's University Bookstores
that the vast majority of men are still eyes) and all other quacks and soulful
hidebound in prejudice and engrossed reformers. Wholesale and Reiail
in finding "good reasons" rather than But I digress. Robinson sketches Books - Stationery - Office Supplies
"real reasons" for the things they be- briefly the history of science and
tieve. This last is, in truth, the back- Ihotght, and siows the flux and la _ _
hone of the book. Robinson goes on """""."".""""""."."." _"".". """""-".""-"_"
to demonstrate that the average
American is automatically for or
against an issue immediately it comes
up, but without any particular reason
except that he must fall on one side
or the other. Having fallen he seeks' 11
evidence wiich tends to corroborateuccessful Buiness M an
and fortify it "widon."T e ,c sFJ i''"tJ
But, regardless of this center off
gravity in his book, Robinson is at
his best when oe writes of the sus-
picion wh w shich new ideas are re-
"el" ym halways majors in the study of thrift. It doesn't
a change of attitude is almost inopos-
sie to the general con of mankind,matter whether he receives his education at
and that the leaders themselves are
against any csange, tsaly for the M ichigan or in the University of Hard Knocks,
simple reason that a change means
nes leaders. Anything that eparts thrift, consistent, well-balanced thrift, must al-
from the normal in any real fashion
isreeted as Iereia' Thus an so ways be counted as one of the required subjects.
tot is looked upon as a fool or agent w ysa o eee uie
of the devil; thus a socialist is re-
garded a bomb carrier with lice in his
whiskers; thus is anyone, for that A bank account is a good
matter, who distruts the present gov-
ernment, looked upon as a radical promoter of the thrift habit
and a dangerous fellow; thus are
Havelock Ellis books hermetically
sealed in the libraries or entirely bar-
red from the shelves. (It reminds
breobttisfomeiabokone ofthe rudysenstheo ~e Russians T EA N A B R S V N S B N
onomoral grounds), andhs is t THE NN ARBOR S VINGS BAN
one who doubts or flouts the current
trend of morals rushed to the nearest RESOURCES OVER $5,000,000.00
calaboose or regarded as a lewd and
untrustworthy individual. Let a man
suggest, for instance, that there is

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