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done its duty? We have done our duty ourselves, 

 and we have done the higher duty of promoting the 

 civilization of mankind. The first essential of civ 

 ilization is law. Anarchy is simply the handmaiden 

 and forerunner of tyranny and despotism. Law and 

 order enforced with justice and by strength lie at 

 the foundations of civilization. Law must be based 

 upon justice, else it can not stand, and it must be en 

 forced with resolute firmness, because weakness in 

 enforcing it means in the end that there is no justice 

 and no law, nothing but the rule of disorderly and 

 unscrupulous strength. Without the habit of or 

 derly obedience to the law, without the stern enforce 

 ment of the laws at the expense of those who defi 

 antly resist them, there can be no possible progress, 

 moral or material, in civilization. There can be no 

 weakening of the law-abiding spirit here at home, 

 if we are permanently to succeed; and just as little 

 can we afford to show weakness abroad. Lawless 

 ness and anarchy were put down in the Philippines 

 as a prerequisite to introducing the reign of justice. 

 Barbarism has, and can have, no place in a civ 

 ilized world. It is our duty toward the people living 

 in barbarism to see that they are freed from their 

 chains, and we can free them only by destroying bar 

 barism itself. The missionary, the merchant, and 

 the soldier may each have to play a part in this de 

 struction, and in the consequent uplifting of the peo- 



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