disintegrating trend of the machine discipline may be corrected. The regime of status, fealty, prerogative, and arbitrary command would guide the institutional growth back into the archaic conventional ways and give the cultural structure something of that secure dignity and stability which it had before the times, not only of socialistic vapors, but of natural rights as well. Then, too, the rest of the spiritual furniture of the ancient regime shall presumably be reinstated; materialistic scepticism may yield the ground to a romantic philosophy, and the populace and the scientists alike may regain something of that devoutness and faith in preternatural agencies which they have recently been losing. As the discipline of prowess again comes to its own, conviction and contentment with whatever is authentic may return to distracted Christendom, and may once more give something of a sacramental serenity to men's outlook on the present and the future.
Pero la autenticidad y la dignidad sacramental no pertenecen ni a la tecnología de las máquinas, ni a la ciencia moderna, ni al tráfico comercial. En la medida en que la política agresiva y los ideales aristocráticos promovidos actualmente por la comunidad de negocios se desarrollen libremente, su resultado lógico será una disminución de aquellos rasgos culturales que distinguen los tiempos modernos de lo que vino antes, incluido un declive de la propia empresa comercial.
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like and unscientiSc discipline brought in by aggresaive politics may be expected to prevail over the discipline of the machine industry. It is difficult to believe that the machine technology and the pursuit of the material sciences will be definitively superseded, for the reason, among others, that any community which loses these elements of its culture thereby loses that brute material force that gives it strength against its