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chi.78013704-04	nan	The Dial  v.65 Jul-Dec	1918		.txt	text/plain	92059	3936	64	One of the disadvantages of writing war books Agreeing at the outset that The Four Horsemen while the war is in progress is that the possibility of the Apocalypse and its successor were written in of their being rendered anachronistic by the advance a worthy and triumphant cause, let us also agree not of the conflict inspires in the author a greater impa- to be therefore blind to their artistic defects. In point of formal com and to dictate the only sound reconstruction of civil pliance with their demands, the enlightened ideals and economic institutions according to the modern of the eighteenth century are, no doubt, more com- plan. monly realized in practice today than at any earlier But like other men, Adam Smith was a creature period.	cache/chi.78013704-04.txt	txt/chi.78013704-04.txt