But it took a long time to be recognized; and it was not until after the appalling events of the first twenty years of the century, and the discrediting of the absurd Socialistic attempt to preach the Law of Love by methods of Force, that civilization as a whole saw the point.

Yet for all that it was beginning to mould popular opinion even as early as 1910.
"Turn now to a completely different plane.

Turn to Art.

This, too, drove men back to the Church." (Mr.Manners' air was becoming now less professional and more vivid.
He glanced quickly from face to face with a kind of sharp triumph; his long, thin hands waved a slight gesture now and again.) "Art, you remember, in the end of the Victorian era had attempted to become realistic--had attempted, that is, the absurdly impossible; and photography exposed the absurdity, For no man can be truly a realist, since it is literally impossible to paint or to describe all that the eye sees.

When photography became general, this began to be understood; since it was soon seen that the only photographer who could lay any claim to artistic work was the man who selected and altered and posed--arranged his subject, that is to say, in more or less symbolic form.