I believe that "rising in the world" has made the United States the most materialistic, the most prosperous, and the most uncomfortable nation on earth. It has led innumerable men, women, and even children to think that the highest aim in life is to get and not to give--surely the road to sterility, and decadence, and eventually to materialistic poverty. I see "rising in the world" creating jungle-fanging tactics expressed in showy houses, expensive automobiles, the ten best-dressed women, paunchy men in plush clubs, and countless other neuroticisms. I see women made pawns and men pawnbrokers. If this is to be the yeast with which the loaf of democracy is baked, the rest of the world will find it