Note 104 — Chapter VII · DEMOCRACY AND STANDARDS

Strange things have been happening to the Puritan conscience of late even in the most authentic descendants of the Puritans. Thus Henry Adams inserts in a hymn to the Virgin a hymn to the dynamo. The whole conception has little relation to mediæval Christianity and none at all to Puritanism. It is, however, closely related to the tendency of the nineteenth century to see in a sympathy that is emancipated from justice the proper corrective of a power that is pursued without regard to the law of measure.