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definitively superseded, for the reason, among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
rivals. And it is equally difficult to imagine how
any one of the communities of Christendom can
avoid entering the funnel of business and dynaatic
politica, and so running through the process whereby
^ :> the materialistic animus is eliminated. Which of
^(A^ the^o antagonistic factors may prove the stronger
in the long run is something of a blind guess ; but
the calculable future seema to belong to the one or
the other. It seems possible to say this much,
that the full dominion of business enterprise is
I " necessarily a transitory dominion. It stands to
V lose in the end whether the one or the other of the
(jp* <©' two divergent cultural tendencies wins, because it
, WflV is incompatible with the ascendancy of either.
Sm CbftpWt Vm. pp. SI7-3U.