Excerpt from Ariel Although with a passionate interest greater then than ours, it viewed the war for the most part as a distant planet a burning sun. And before that cataclysm, to which the world's machine-made industrialism in deed had largely led, its countries, mainly agricultural, were spared that flood of en ergy for the multiplication of the cheaper things of life, not food for body or the soul, that slavery to machines in the much vaunted efficiency, and division of labor, that exploitation of man and woman in the operative, which have so much con fused our Northern judgment of the higher things in life, and, worse than that, has bred class-conflict, distrust of all govern ment, and passionate enmity between those who should be working together in gener ous production and fair distribution of even the material things of earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.