hard after the rapid success of Theosophy in India, where in four years from its foundation (1879) it counted seventy-seven flourishing branches; but these are withering away under the Blavatsky scandals, and if Theosophy is to live it must "take refuge in Buddha!" EMANCIPATION BY NATIONALISM. BY T. B. WAKEMAN. The usually very liberal and skeptical Reverend Minot J. Savage has become astonishingly, and it may be prematurely, certain on one subject. In THE ARENA for August (p. 321) he declares that, "Nationalism, freely chosen, would be the murder of liberty, and social suicide." To which the usually impartial editor cries Amen, thus:-- "I most heartily _and_ cordially endorse Mr. Savage's position." For this sudden and decisive foreclosure of the future and of THE ARENA upon Nationalism the world was not prepared. We enter a protest and an appeal! Able "Gladiators are ready to fight for it," with aid and sympathy from the leading reformers--the world over. The contest has hardly begun. A Bunker Hill or a Bull Run does not end the war. He who opened _an Arena_ must keep it open, and like "the God of battles" wait for the best cause to win. Suppose it be found, as we propose to begin to show here and now, that Nationalism, under the laws of Sociology, is not the murder, but in fact and theory, the only condition of liberty, and the only way out from social suicide,--what then? Would it not have been better for THE ARENA to have been kept open, as if by the aforesaid Deity, with a level head and a stiff and silent upper lip?