The Changing Order A Study of Democracy BY Oscar Lovell Triggs, Ph. D. And slowly answered Arthur from the barge: "The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfills Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world." SERIES I 1905 PUBLISHED BY THE OSCAR L. TRIGGS PUBLISHING COMPANY. CHICAGO NOTE. Several of the papers of this volume have appeared in the Forum, Sewanee Review, Poet-Lore, Unity, Open Court, Independent, Chautauquan, and Craftsman; and to the editors of these magazines I am indebted for permission to reprint in the present form. O. L. T. Chicago, July, 1905. THE WORD DEMOCRACY. Underneath all now comes this Word, turning the edge of the other words where they meet it. Politics, art, science, commerce, religion, customs and methods of daily life, the very outer shows and semblances of ordinary objects Their meanings must all now be absorbed and recast in this word, or else fall off like dry husks before its disclosure Art can now no longer be separated from life; The old canons fail; her tutelage completed she becomes equivalent to Nature, and hangs her curtains continuous with the clouds and waterfalls The form of man emerges in all objects, baffling the old classifications and definitions The old ties giving way beneath the strain, and the great pent heart heaving as though it would break At the sound of the new word spoken At the sound of the word Democracy. EDWARD CARPENTER in "Towards Democracy." |