ABSTRACT
The trouble with the human race is that when one is talking to it about itself, it thinks it is it. Everything is following the fact-spirit. The modern world and everything in it is falling into the hands of the men who cannot be cheated about facts, who get the facts first, and who get them right. Goodness and efficiency both boil down to the same quality in the modern man—his faculty for not being a romantic person and for not being cheated. Facts are the modern man’s hunting, his adventure and sport. The men who are ahead are getting into a kind of two-and-two-are-four habit that is like music, like rhythm. It becomes a passion, almost a self-indulgence in their lives. Being honest with things, having a distaste for being cheated by things, having a distaste for being cheated by one’s self and for cheating other people, runs in the modern blood in modern man.
