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Only new men will build the new society. Therecan be no conquest of the world without previousconquest of self, no social reform without self-reform.

In this respect, we children of the twentiethcentury are extraordinarily favourably situated.Psychology offers us to-day unimagined possibilitiesof human capacity. Freud, whatever may be ourattitude to his individual assertions, has unveiledthe ocean of the subconscious. Psychotechnicsteach us how to pacify and sail this ocean. Unheardof horizons open up to us. To our forefatherswireless telegraphy would have seemed likewitchcraft, for us the secrets of telepathy arecoming into the region of the intelligible.Possibilities of healing are opening out to psycho-therapeutics, which resemble the miracles of theBible. We gladly accept the achievements ofCoue and his school. The New Thought Move-ment has put thousands of its adherents into" Harmony with the Infinite."

In close connection with these advances arethose in Biology. Applying the biological lawswhich centuries of so-called civilisation haveabused and trespassed, we can make life a " gloriousfate " and become efficient instruments of ourcalling. In America this movement is associatedwith the name of Dr. J. H. Kellogg. By reformingourselves, which nobody can hinder us from doing,we prepare the way for social reform which isbound to come if a minority of strong men andwomen decide to have it. The social unrest ofour time comes in no small degree from physicaldecay. The man whose biological system is rotten

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