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effects of running counter to the normal course of things; 

 yet not only is 110 such question ever entertained, but one 

 who raised it would be laughed down in any popular assem 

 blage and smiled at as a dreamer in the House of Commons : 

 the only course thought wise in either the cultured or the 

 uncultured gathering being that of trying to estimate im 

 mediate benefits and evils. 



Nor will any argument or any accumulation of evidence 

 suffice to change this attitude until there has arisen a differ 

 ent type of mind and a different quality of culture. The 

 politician will still spend his energies in rectifying some evils 

 and making more in forming, reforming, and again re 

 forming in passing acts to amend acts that were before 

 amended ; while social schemers will continue to think that 

 they have only to cut up society and re-arrange it after their 

 ideal pattern and its parts will join together again and work 

 as intended ! 



