think the playground does that oftener than the school. But when either does so,
it assumes a responsibility for affording those emotions a disciplining exercise,
a living experience, just as it affords accuracy in spelling exercise and cxperi-
ence. The emotions can be consciously guided and disciplined. My impression is
that education has scarcely atarted to explore the planning of emotional experi-
ence for the sake of developing emotional controls. It can be done. It has
been started, especially in training for carcers in drama, and to a lesser extent
for careers in music and art. The feeling for the subject gets attention there.
But it has been started, only. It is still embryonic.

Those of us who live close to the dykes against which tides of propaganda
are gnawing while we sleep, realize that civilized sonmming is everywhere en-
dangered in our modern world. Even here where authoritarianism is not yet in
control, we must protect imperiled social values with more than the loose fill
of unconsolidated learnings. Cementing, emotional integration, is needed to
lend cohesion to the facts we know, to bind them into a wearing surface, and there-
by consolidate common knowledge into social wisdom. With sinister purposes, men
who work in darkmess are opening floodgates, releasing torrents to dash against
those dykes. Those men wear a uniform and employ a technique like spiritual
apostles, but the works by which they may be kmown are works of hatred, not of
charity. They learned their process from the evangelists of religion. But instead
of conviction of sin, they generate fear, suspicion, and hatred. Instead of
repentance and deliverance from evil, they concentrate their efforts, artfully
arousing fury against alien opponents of their ideologies, or against internal
minorities, as scapegoats useful in diverting critical attention from themselves.
Instead of entering the fold of the redeemed, they offer converts membership in
the bund, the party, or the organization. That is the art of propaganda. It

isn't new. They haven't even originality to their credit. Their whole strategy

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