ABSTRACT
Mr Eastman is not a man of science; he is as much a man-of-letters, and suffers as much from 'the literary mind', as any of his opponents. It seems to the author, that anybody who cared about the state of affairs Professor Babbitt depicts so eloquently, would want to analyse the process by which those miserable leaders got into their positions, and think up some scheme for getting some better ones in. To begin with poetry: Pure poetry is the pure effort to heighten consciousness, to convey the quality of an experience; poetry is the attempt to make words suggest the given-in-experience. Social emancipation crawled abroad was the phrase in which he expressed his feeling. A scientific criticism would point out that Mr Eastman along with Professor Babbitt and Mr Elio is untrained in the technique of interpretation.
