ABSTRACT
America, with all its forty-story buildings, its little play Niagaras, its great dumb Rockies, is the unseen country. It can only as yet be seen in people’s eyes. The solidity, the finality, the substantial fact in America, is the daily sense in the streets of the future. All power is rapidly coming to be based on news—news about human nature, and about what is soon to be done by people. As a matter of history, most prophets have been crucified by people; but it was not so much because of their prophecy as because their prophecy did not have any first twenty-five years in it. The trouble with history seems to have been, thus far, that people have been under the illusion that history should be taken as a solid. The advantage of prophecy is that it cannot be taken as a solid by people who would take everything so if they could, Prophecy is protected.
