you remember the piano parts of “Prometheus?” Stravinsky, too—you know
how he uses the piano in “Pétrouchka.” But the new vision is beyond
these—something more rich and shattering.... I can’t say it. Let’s just
wait and see.—The Editor._
_Alice Groff, Philadelphia_:
“Spirit can do” absolutely _nothing_, without body. Social spirit can do
absolutely nothing without the means of life for the body. The social
ego that would “start the revolution” must aim first to get control of
the means of living—food, clothing, shelter, and the resources, natural
and economic, back of these. Revolutions succeed only when they get such
control; if they do not get it they are soap bubbles blown by a little
child.
Why waste time pelting with idle words the social egos that have such
control, instead of going to work to _wrench_ it from them, _even with
war_?
The social ego that has such control “can do anything.” It can stop war
with a turn of its hand and establish in its stead world-wide service,
kindness, brotherhood, peace, joy and beauty. And there is nothing else
in the universe that can do this.
It is for lack of a social ego having such control and that unity in
establishing the above-mentioned principles in the social order, alone,
that “men continue to support institutions they no longer believe in,
that women continue to live with men they no longer love, that youth
continues to submit to age it no longer respects,” and it is the only
agency that can help one to be free when one wants to be free or make
one a personality instead of a nonentity.
All that you say about a “deeper music” is true, though I would say a
more winged music—(I would not dare use to you the word spiritual)—or a
subtler music, or something of that sort; but all that you deprecate in
music, by critical suggestion, is also true and necessary,
scientifically and fundamentally, without which your deeper or higher or
subtler or more winged or more spiritual music would be nothing but soap
bubbles without plenty of soapy water to make them out of. I am one of
those who can appreciate this deeper music—but I know also that it
cannot be created ex-nihilo.
As to Ben Hecht, his power of expression is wonderful. His writing is
literature par excellence, but it lacks a _soul_. If in his meticulous
analyses of life he could suggest the vision of the swallowing up of the
macrocosm in the macrocosm—could suggest what humanity as a whole could
do to wipe out the evils that feed upon the individual—he might be
god-like. But like all of the rest of you he is a dead fly in the
sickening syrup of _laissez faire_, at the mercy of Mother Nature. Now
it isn’t worth while for you to resent this. Go to work and read what I
have been able to get out of _The Egoist_, showing up anarchy for all
that it is worth.
_Edgcumb Pinchon, Los Angeles_:
Glad to see you get into trouble—you have the Flame! May it flash on our
universal dullness and faithlessness as the sun on sword blades——
Do you remember Maupassant’s story: An exhausted French regiment—ten
miles to go—the men mutinous, disgruntled; a broken-down carriage by the
road-side—horses and driver gone—a mother and her daughter forlorn in
the carriage, needing assistance to the next town. The snow is deep,
their slippers are thin and they are fashionably—and uselessly—garbed.
The soldiers make a sedan chair of the carriage poles, and fighting
among themselves for the honor of bearing a hand at the poles they
finish the march with spirit and bravado——?
Do you remember Whitman’s “lithe, fierce girls?” Such are the
flame-tongues of Revolution—the priestesses of social passion.
If Woman only knew her power to work white magic with banality and stir
up the hero-poet in man! But we who have dragged her by the hair for ten
thousand years must continue to drag her enfeebled body and spirit with
us for penalty—even as we are praying her to touch us to Fire!
When you say that all we need at this hour is a few great spiritual
leaders—you are tremendously right. And shall not one of those be some
“lithe fierce girl” who knows how to wake the militant social troubadour
in man?
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