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 URGES AND DOGS

E had quite a discussion the other evening—our Little Group of Serious Thinkers, you know—as to whether it was Idealism or Materialism that had gotten the Germans into this dreadful war.

Isn't Idealism just simply wonderful!

Fothy Finch said it was neither; he said it was the Racial Urge.

It's like the Cosmic Urge, you know; except it's altogether German, Fothy explained.

Every once in a while you hear of a New Urge. That's one of the things that distinguishes Modern Thought from the old philosophies, don't you think?

Although, of course, the Cosmic Urge isn't what it used to be a year or two ago.

It's become—er—well, vulgarized, if you know what I mean. Everybody is writing and talking about it now, don't you know.

I think, myself, it's going out, soon. And a leader—a real pioneer in thought, you know,—would scarcely care to talk about it now without a smile. [50]