ABSTRACT
The improving and renewal of cities might, and should once more, find an initiative, an example, even a world-impulse, at Jerusalem. It is no flattery to people, but the plainest truth, to say that they possess the needful idealism, no less than the (secondarily) needful capital and credit. One idea would be, in preparation for next Exhibition, to work upon a 'Jerusalem Room' for it—Jerusalem Past and Present, with indication of the Possible Future. Geddes began by saying: As in the war we saw Napoleon and Darwin as Emperor and Pope, ruling from their graves, so in the peace to-day Disraeli and Karl Marx are ruling their parties of empire and socialism. A reviewer of one of the Making of the Future series, published before his departure for Jerusalem, says: "There is more Inspiration and Revelation and Salvation and Sanctification and Beatification in any of the Geddes' books than in all the Church creeds and sermons put together."
