66 Fellow-feeling as 



differed among ourselves, or agreed among our 

 selves, not because we had different occupations or 

 the same occupation, but because pf our ways of 

 looking at life. 



It is this capacity for sympathy, for fellow-feeling 

 and mutual understanding, which must lie at the 

 basis of all really successful movements for good 

 government and the betterment of social and civic 

 conditions. There is no patent device for bringing 

 about good government. Still less is there any 

 patent device for remedying social evils and doing 

 away with social inequalities. Wise legislation can 

 help in each case, and crude, vicious, or demagogic 

 legislation can do an infinity of harm. But the bet 

 terment must come through the slow workings of 

 the same forces which always have tended for right 

 eousness, and always will. 



The prime lesson to be taught is the lesson of 

 treating each man on his worth as a man, and of 

 remembering that while sometimes it is necessary, 

 from both a legislative and social standpoint, to con 

 sider men as a class, yet in the long run our safety 

 lies in recognizing the individual's worth or lack of 

 worth as the chief basis of action, and in shaping 

 our whole conduct, and especially our political con 

 duct, accordingly. It is impossible for a democracy 

 to endure if the political lines are drawn to coincide 

 with class lines. The resulting government, whether 



