And they are to be studied and understood with the definite and positive aim of the absolute reconstruction of the world-bound spirita change of its motives, purposes, affections, ideals.

But the work of reconstruction in Europe is in the interest of France herself.

" Whatever further complications and postponements may arise, there will certainly come a time of recovery and reconstruction on a wide and extended scale over Europe and a large part of the world.

It was the bed of the old railway, long destroyed by the Arabs, but now in process of reconstruction by the advancing Egyptians.

It was with the produce of imposts and plunder in Gaul that he undertook the reconstruction at Rome of the basilica of the Forum, the site whereof, extending to the temple of Liberty, was valued, it is said, at more than twenty million five hundred thousand francs.

The unfinished task; economic reconstruction for democracy.

The tower was rebuilt, though not to its original height, but in the reconstruction, the parts of the transept nearest to the tower were also rebuilt, and thus we have here two periods of Norman work; the main building of 1107 and the reconstruction after that date.

In fact, the conquerors contributed the worse share (Fig. 5); for, whilst exercising the low and debasing instincts of their former barbarism, they undertook the work of social reconstruction with a sort of natural and innate servitude.

But when the slaves were emancipated, and these women asked that they should be recognized in the reconstruction as citizens of the Republic, equal before the law, all these transcendent virtues vanished like dew before the morning sun.

X RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE WAR We have seen how impossible it is to forecast the new world that will follow the War, we know merely that it will be utterly new.

It was originally built for a loft, and its reconstruction into a public hall was an afterthought.

The first step to be taken is to give security of existence and of reconstruction to Germany; the second is to guarantee France from the perils of a not distant future; the third is to find at all costs a means of accord between Germany, France and Italy.

All this tremendous work of social reconstruction about which we are talking must be done, and most of it must be done by them.