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 SYMBOLS AND DEW-HOPPING

AST week the loveliest man lectured to us—to our Little Group of Advanced Thinkers, you know—on the Ultimate Symbolism. In art and life both, you know.

It was simply wonderful—wonderful!

Art, you know, used to be full of symbolism.

But now, it seems, symbolism has dropped out of Art, and Nature has taken it up.

Odd, isn't it? But really not surprising when you come to think about it.

For, you know, Nature is always trying to keep up with advanced ideas—evolving and evolving toward the Superman.

And the Superwoman, too.

I think it is the duty of us who are advanced thinkers to give Nature a worthy ideal to evolve toward, don't you?

To set Nature a mark to come up to, you know.

For what is the use of evolution if it doesn't evolve forward instead of backward?

And the Best People, I think, should feel a sense of social responsibility and give evolution a model. [36]