3 8 Latitude and Longitude 



of, proper party loyalty, with the thoroughness and 

 justice shown, for instance, by Mr. Lecky in his 

 recent queerly named volume, "The Map of Life." 

 All men in whose character there is not an ele 

 ment of hardened baseness must admit the need in 

 our public life of those qualities which we some 

 what vaguely group together when we speak of "re 

 form," and all men of sound mind must also admit 

 the need of efficiency. There are, of course, men 

 of such low moral type, or of such ingrained cyni 

 cism, that they do not believe in the possibility of 

 making anything better, or do not care to see things 

 better. There are also men who are slightly dis 

 ordered mentally, or who are cursed with a moral 

 twist which makes them champion reforms less from 

 a desire to do good to others than as a kind of trib 

 ute to their own righteousness, for the sake of em 

 phasizing their own superiority. From neither of 

 these classes can we get any real help in the unend 

 ing struggle for righteousness. There remains the 

 great body of the people, including the entire body 

 of those through whom the salvation of the people 

 must ultimately be worked out. All these men com 

 bine or seek to combine in varying degrees the 

 quality of striving after the ideal, that is, the qual 

 ity which makes men reformers, and the quality 

 of so striving through practical methods the 

 quality which makes men efficient. Both qualities 



