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broad shoulders of the state is therefore but a reflex from industrialism 

 itself. A community of interests among the prosperous classes and 

 class hatred between the proprietary and the working classes can not per- 

 manently coexist. If the industrial trust brings peace where there was 

 war, this peace must finally extend to humanity itself. Industrialism 

 has eliminated the middle ground and the possibility of compromise. 

 Peace between the giant groups is progress — warfare between the giant 

 groups is destruction. Science cures the ills it itself creates. 



There is thus brought up to our era as the essential terms of per- 

 manence, the acceptance of the fundamental message of Christianity. 

 Unselfish cooperation, appreciation and love of our fellow travelers, is 

 the condition of progress. The industrial age, as it develops, must 

 become the most cultured, the most gracious, the kindliest of the eras 

 that the human family has yet lived. Industrialism compels the rule 

 of men by the principle of charity. It has brought us to a climax in 

 human affairs. Society can push forward only on the basis of a revived 

 and reconstructed Christianity. Charity, love, unselfishness, the Golden 

 Eule — whatever you may name the law — has begun to be the necessary 

 and sufficient condition of advance. This present era is not the old 

 age of Christianity — it is its childhood. As the biologist might say, 

 the Industrial Age is a period of rapid mutation. The type is changing. 

 It is a day of hope and of optimism, such as the world has not hitherto 

 known. 



