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social possessions, lies the intellectual compulsion to 

 self-denial and self-saving cooperative action. 



As the leaders in social life become more conscious 

 of what man has achieved, they feel more keenly the 

 sense of ownership in social institutions; recognize the 

 constructive value of their heritage, and the dangers 

 that threaten it. They are terrified by their new re- 

 sponsibilities and by the conviction that their own 

 welfare, their own lives, and those of their nearest and 

 dearest, depend not on themselves alone, but on count- 

 less scraps of good intentions; on countless vacillating 

 purposes, feeble intelligence, and physical incapacity 

 in other human beings in whom, of necessity, they must 

 place their trust. Therein lies the new and henceforth 

 ever present motive which, in self-defense and self- 

 preservation, will compel these leaders to serve and 

 strengthen their fellow men, physically, intellectually, 

 and morally. 



The old terrors of the unknown, of superstition, 

 witchcraft, and of nature's countless evil doers, which 

 once served as directive agencies, rounding up mankind 

 with a common fear into terror-stricken flocks, com- 

 pelling him to seek the shelter of familiar haunts and 

 the encouragement of familiar faces, vanished under 

 the reassuring bounty of larger experience, only to be 

 replaced by the new terrors of modern social life. 

 That is, by the fear of overwhelming numbers whose 

 faces are seen but whose motives are unknown; fear 

 of drowning in a storm-tossed ocean of humanity, swept 

 from a sustaining purpose, or smothered into helpless 

 inaction ; fear of the instability of his own intentions, 

 and above all fear of the insincerity and incompetency 



