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Enclosed within the soft imagination of the
HOMO MEDITERRANEUS lies a kernel of hard reason. We have reached that
kernel. The Northerner's hardness is on the surface; his core, his
inner being, is apt to quaver in a state of fluid irresponsibility. Yet
there must be reasonable men everywhere; men who refuse to wear away
their faculties in a degrading effort to plunder one another, men who
are tired of hustle and strife. What, sir, would you call the
phenomenon of to-day? What is the outstanding feature of modern life?
The bankruptcy, the proven fatuity, of everything that is bound up
under the name of Western civilization. Men are perceiving, I think,
the baseness of mercantile and military ideals, the loftiness of those
older ones. They will band together, the elect of every nation, in
god-favoured regions round the Inland Sea, thee to lead serener lives.
To those how have hitherto preached indecorous maxims of conduct they
will say: 'What is all this ferocious nonsense about strenuousness? An
unbecoming fluster.


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