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HEART AND SOUL

MAVERIC POST

NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1921

Copyright, 1921, by THE CENTURY CO.

APOLOGY

This book was not written with any idea of being published, but simply because I could not help it.

I got thinking about various things, in the lives of people about me, and in my own life, and, after a while, I found that my thoughts would not let me alone. They kept coming back, to trouble and haunt me, until finally I realized that the only way I could be rid of them and have a little peace, was to set them down on paper.

After that, I had the indiscretion to read parts of them to one or two who are near to me. These seemed to think that they might prove helpful to others who felt the same way and urged me to publish them.

I cannot be blamed very much for conceiving a hope that this might prove true. And, in that hope, I have followed their advice.

M.P.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I DIAGNOSIS 3

II THE UP-TO-DATE PRINCIPLE 43

III REASON AND EXPERIENCE 59

IV AFFECTION 83

V FAITH 109

VI SCIENCE AND THE INTELLECT 167

VII HOPE 221

VIII HEART AND SOUL 234

APPENDIX 317

HEART AND SOUL

HEART AND SOUL

DIAGNOSIS

Many of us, to-day, are disturbed and alarmed by the point of view and the behavior of people about us--especially the younger generation. Girls of good family are seen on all sides, who smoke and gamble and drink and paint their faces and laugh with scorn at the traditions and conventions which their grand-parents regarded with almost sacred reverence. The young men are worse, if anything, and as for the married people of the new era, what they are doing to the sanctity of the home and the bonds of matrimony might seem like a weird travesty of the teachings of the past.

What is the world coming to? Are things going on indefinitely, this way,--or more so? If not, who, or what, is to stop the movement and turn it in another direction? What is the meaning of it all? What is to be done about it?

Before attempting to speculate on these questions, it might be a good idea to consider for a moment the main, fundamental influences which have always been at work, to a greater or less extent, in determining the conduct of human beings.