[8] To those familiar with Mr. Eliot’s _The Waste Land_, my indebtedness to it at this point will be evident. He seems to me by this poem, to have performed two considerable services for this generation. He has given a perfect emotive description of a state of mind which is probably inevitable for a while to all meditative people. Secondly, by effecting a complete severance between his poetry and _all_ beliefs, and this without any weakening of the poetry, he has realised what might otherwise have remained largely a speculative possibility, and has shown the way to the only solution of these difficulties. “In the destructive element immerse. That is the way.” Transcriber’s Note _Underscores_ represent italics in plain text. This book was published as part of the series “Psyche Miniatures: General Series #1”, from “Psyche: An Illustrated Quarterly Review of General and Applied Psychology”. Related front matter and back matter, which lists the series’ titles and contributors, is not included here. Later reprints of this book improved on the typesetting or editing of this edition. The following quirks are original to this edition and not transcription errors: the use of both single and double quotation marks; and sentences that seem to lack appropriate commas. Some commas have been added when present in the 1926 American edition (W. W. Norton); for example, “a new order based on conciliation[+,] not on attempted suppression”. The book cover image was made by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.