it is the prophetic artist mind that must reveal this natural state idealized, conventionalized harmoniously with the life-principle of all men. How otherwise shall it be discerned? All the sheer wisdom of science, the cunning of politics and the prayers of religion can but stand and wait for the revelation,—awaiting at the hands of the artist that conventionalization of the free expression of life-principle which shall make our social living beautiful,—organically true. Behind all institutions or dogmatic schemes, whatever their worth may be, or their venerable antiquity,—behind them all is something produced and preserved for its aesthetic worth; the song of the poet, some artist vision, the pattern seen in the mount. “Now speaking a language all the clearer because not native to us, beggared as we are by material riches, the humble Japanese artist has become greatly significant because he is the interpreter of the one permanent thing in the life of his people; that one permanent thing being the principle of a right conventionalization of life which makes of their native forms the most humanly significant, and most humanly joy-giving as in its ever varied moods and in evanescent loveliness he has made Fujiyama—that image of man in the vast—the God of Nippon.” Evolution versus Stagnation (_Being a Debate, with Rare Illustrations, by Major Funkhouser, Mr. Lucian Cary, and The Camera, reported for_ THE LITTLE REVIEW _by Herman Schuchert_.) Place: Fullerton Hall. Time: Thursday afternoon, December 10, 1914. Characters: Mere and supporting members of the Drama League, and others mentioned above; also guards, committees, and a few men. * * * * * MAJOR FUNKHOUSER (_his remarks, condensed_). Censorship of the movies is necessary because it must be. Buildings, public rights, and milk are censored, and it is good. Fifty per cent of a movie audience is under fifteen years of age. I may be wrong sometimes, but I pass what I think they should see. We must be big-brothers to our citizens of lesser intelligence. I told my four daughters only what I thought they should know. I believe in telling women as little as they may really need. The working class wants salacious stuff; we must prevent. These excerpts from banned films will illustrate my points: * * * * * THE CINEMATOGRAPH (_its pictures, briefly mentioned_). Woman and man clutching each other in a raging, although amiable, passion. Boy being taught how to pick pockets. Hold-up. Woman and man in furious love-experiments. Mexicans burning bodies of dead rebels. Doctors dressing Mexican battle-wounds. Woman and man preparing the furnace of love. Woman and man .... Woman .... Man .... * * * * * MR. LUCIAN CARY (_his ideas, pieced together_). These pictures are positively abominable.