Article August 3, 1929 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Floyd W. Tomkins, Edward M. Noyes, Samuel S. Drury

[Editorial in the American Mutual Magazine, Boston, Massachusetts]

At times all people feel intensely the solitude of life. They realize that, notwithstanding the friends by whom they are surrounded and the fellowships in which they live, they are practically alone. The time which we spend with each other is infinitesimal compared with the time we spend alone, and when we are together our words do not convey to each other any conception of the separate worlds in which we dwell. The world of purposes, ideals, thoughts, and feelings in which we live we create for ourselves and for eternity. No act of ours can ever destroy it.

To get out of this world which they have made themselves, men have attempted by violence to undo their own work, but no one escapes from the world which he has made. Is it not therefore of far greater importance to us that we should make the eternal world, in which we are always to live, pure, beautiful, and rich than that we should surround ourselves with any special comforts or secure for ourselves any particular human fellowship?

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