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only desire to do right but a willingness each to try 

 to understand the viewpoint of his fellow, with 

 whom, for weal or for woe, his own fortunes are in- 

 dissolubly bound. 



No patent remedy can be devised for the solu 

 tion of these grave problems in the industrial world ; 

 but we may rest assured that they can be solved at 

 all only if we bring to the solution certain old-time 

 virtues, and if we strive to keep out of the solution 

 some of the most familiar and most undesirable of 

 the traits to which mankind has owed untold degra 

 dation and suffering throughout the ages. Arro 

 gance, suspicion, brutal envy of the well-to-do, bru 

 tal indifference toward those who are not well-to-do, 

 the hard refusal to consider the rights of others, the 

 foolish refusal to consider the limits of beneficent 

 action, the base appeal to the spirit of selfish greed, 

 whether it take the form of plunder of the fortunate 

 or of oppression of the unfortunate from these and 

 from all kindred vices this Nation must be kept free 

 if it is to remain in its present position in the fore 

 front of the peoples of mankind. On the other 

 hand, good will come, even out of the present evils, 

 if we face them armed with the old homely vir 

 tues; if we show that we are fearless of soul, cool 

 of head, and kindly of heart ; if, without betraying 

 the weakness that cringes before wrongdoing, we 

 yet show by deeds and words our knowledge that 

 in such a government as ours each of us must be 

 in very truth his brother's keeper. 



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