Retro-assimilation has strong appeal in today's climate of social turmoil, transformation and global threats: we are irresistibly drawn to its retroscapes, its nostalgic memories of safer and simpler times.

And Annie could have wept for pity of him; And yet she held him on delayingly With many a scarce-believable excuse, Trying his truth and his long-sufferance, Till half-another year had slipt away.

Of universall life each thing's deriv'd Whater'e appeareth in corporeall fashion; For body's but this spirit, fixt, grosse by conspissation

The agencies of the Central States have been Tarbellized this month. Now watch the returns.