Modern Review September 1912

Thus as in the case of the specific:arts the cause and condition of good and beatiful work is an ideal or sense of beauty so with respect to the art of living the possession of a conscious ideal is the condition of the highest well-being. [...] The next experiment in which he engaged was that of starting with two or three friends in a community upon a farm for the sake of living close to nature for the sake of cultivating fields and orchards in innocence and freedom from the commecial spirit and for the sake of cultivating the mind as well as the ground. [...] My sister had forwarded to me from Paris the "Agenda of the Arts and Manufactures" for 19oa a copy of which was sent to her address for me by the Association of the old students of the central school and in which I began to write—very often for my distraction for the idea of these memoirs did not come to"238 THE MODERN REVIEW FOR SEPTEMBER 1912 me but later—day by day the events of the prison [...] Naturally the Christian religion or rather Protestant Christianity forms the basis of all the articles appearing in the "Sonntagsblatt" ! For example —the subjects dealt with in the issue of third August are the following ;—"Always in God" is the title of a little piece of poetry in two strophes the burden of which is that we should bear in patience the miseries of life ad majorem Dei gloriam [...] Up to the year 1907 all the profit derived from the coinage of the overvalued rupee was devoted to the formation of a definite fund called the gold-reserve held in London ; since 1907 half of the profit is added to the existing reserve.