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ment. That mutual service carried its own creative re- 

 wards was not so strongly emphasized. "Ye shall 

 serve the Lord, thy God, and He shall bless thy bread." 

 "Be thou for the people." . . . "Thou shalt teach them 

 ordinances and laws and shalt shew them the way 

 wherein they must walk, and the work that they must 

 do." "Six days shalt thou labor." "Thou shalt love 

 the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy 

 soul, and with all thy mind." "Thou shalt love thy 

 neighbor as thyself." 



The democratic state does not make corresponding 

 demands on its citizens. . A citizen of the United 

 States, it is true, may not legally work on Sunday, and 

 he must pay taxes, if he has taxable property; but, ex- 

 cept perhaps in times of the greatest emergencies, his 

 civic laws do not compel him to labor on any day; or 

 to accumulate taxable property; or to love and honor 

 his country; nor do they show him the way wherein 

 he must walk and the labor he must do. 



9. The Directive Discipline of Science. Science is 

 more explicit in its restrictions and compulsions than 

 either civic or religious governments ; for science com- 

 prises all man's knowledge of nature-action, and all 

 man's intelligent efforts rightly to obey her dictates the 

 better to profit thereby. It seeks to define in its law- 

 giving, not only what may and what may not be profit- 

 ably done, but precisely what must be done, if it be 

 done profitably. It aims to measure the rewards of 

 Tightness, as well as the punishments which follow 

 every violation of nature's constructive ways. Science, 

 in a passing stupor, is the new Moses, receiving out of 

 the black and angry clouds of political dissension, na- 

 ture's more explicit dictates, to be translated by science 



