Under his mask of generous futurism, the progressive no longer concerns himself with the future; convinced that it holds in store for him neither surprises nor secrets, nothing adventurous, nothing essentially new; assured that the world will now proceed on a straight course, neither turning aside nor dropping back, he puts away from him all anxiety about the future and takes his stand in the definite present. It isn’t strange then that the world today seems empty of purposes, anticipations, and ideals. Nobody has concerned himself with supplying them. Such has been the desertion of the
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