That marvel - the movie : a glance at its reckless past, its promising present, and its significant future (1923)

14 THAT MARVEL— THE MOVIE are our millionaires who seek worthy objects for their benefactions?" And, from another recently published book, "The Salvaging of Civilization," by H. G. Wells, can be most aptly quoted the following pertinent excerpt: It has become clear that the task of bringing about that consolidated world state which is necessary to prevent the decline and decay of mankind is not primarily one for the diplomatists and lawyers and politicians at all. It is an educational one. It is a moral based on an intellectual reconstruction. The task immediately before mankind is to find release from the contentions, loyalties and hostilities of the past, which make collective worldwide action impossible at the present time, in a worldwide common vision of the histories and destines of the race. On that basis, and on that alone, can a world control be organized and maintained. The effort demanded from mankind, therefore, is primarily and essentially a bold reconstruction of the outlook upon life of hundreds of millions of minds. During the past eight years the human race has undergone the bloodiest ordeal of the ages and, succeeding it, the bitterest disappointment that mankind has yet been forced to endure. A confusion of tongues that made European diplomacy helpless at a great crisis rendered a world war inevitable and the lack of a common medium of enlightenment at Versailles postponed indefinitely the establishment