It is fearedbut here our later historians speak with bated breath, not liking to bring such an accusation against the kind Pope, who loved men of lettersthat the destruction of St. Peter's, afterward ruthlessly carried out by succeeding popes, was in his plan, on the pretext, so constantly employed, and possibly believed in, of the instability of the ancient building.

And by this last factor we must not only mean want, but any other condition of administrative instability in political, moral, and intellectual life.

This problem has long interested me, and I harbor no doubt not only that the equilibrium of society is very rapidly shifting, but that Mr. Roosevelt has, half-automatically, been stimulated by the instability about him to seek for a new centre of social gravity.

Besides, also perceptible was the same instability at the top during those couple of years, around the mid-nineties.

In Great Britain, under the abnormal conditions which prevailed during the war, and subsequently, these variations were so huge as to constitute a most formidable embarrassment and to contribute, more perhaps than any other single factor, to the unrest and instability by which the industry has been afflicted.