I would absolve myself from the taboo of this word. Property is a grand form of clothes. A property revolution, such as the Socialists recommend, would be little more important in setting men's minds free for self-government, than would putting women in trousers be in setting women's minds free for the achievement of sex equality. Some German--I think it was Spengler--writing about some "Niedergang," I think it was of western civilization--all Germans like to write about Niedergangs--demonstrated that every new civilization starts with a new theory of the universe, of space and time. That is, it starts with a real revolution. Well, then, here is the true happy ending; Einstein is giving us a new theory of the universe, knocking the mathematical props from under infinity, teaching us that man largely fashions the world out of his own mind. Man again tends to become what the old Greek radical called him, "The measure of all things." Once he is, and it will take a long time for him to admit that he is, there may be a real chance for democracy and for the emergence of great individuals, who are after all the best evidence of civilization. You see the happy ending is Einstein and not the farm bloc. Meanwhile we have the farm bloc, one sign of vitality amid much deadness, a reassertion of the principle which the Fathers of the Constitution held, that there must be room for the play of minorities in our political system. END End of Project Gutenberg's Behind the Mirrors, by Clinton W. Gilbert