ABSTRACT
For the Dreadnought bears the same relation to the thought and impulse of this age as the cathedral did to the Middle Ages—the one is built for the protection of the body, the other for the protection of the soul. And it all comes about because as a nation people are occupied exclusively with material considerations. People concentrate all their attention on the means of civilization, to the utter neglect and disregard of the ends which such means are to serve. So, instead of public and spiritual ends, people serve secret and private ones, which stand in the way of any restoration of a communal life. After immediate physical wants are satisfied, a time comes in the history of every nation when it finds itself in the possession of surplus wealth. The changed attitude is really the financial difficulty connected with the housing problem, for it is only in modern times that houses were ever expected to pay.
