

The Days of a Man 1893 



"Man's physical wants are slight," he often said, 

 "but his intellectual needs are bounded only by 

 his capacity." 



The value of the study of Political Science as a 

 remedy for defects of government was clearly seen 

 by him: 



All governments are governments of public opinion, and in 

 the long run every people is as well governed as it deserves. 

 . . . Legislation has not, as a rule, been against the people, 

 but it has not done the good that it might. . . . No greater 

 blow can be struck at labor than that which renders its products 

 insecure. 



Value of Voluntary cooperation seemed to him a great 

 force for good. Laying the corner stone of the Inner 

 Quadrangle, he said: 



Out of these suggestions grows the consideration of the 

 great advantages, especially to the laboring man, of coopera- 

 tion, by which each individual has the benefit of the intel- 

 lectual and physical forces of his associates. It is by the in- 

 telligent application of these principles that there will be found 

 the greatest lever to elevate the mass of humanity, and laws 

 should be formed to protect and develop cooperative associa- 

 tions. . . . They will accomplish all that is sought to be 

 secured by labor leagues, trades unions, and other federations 

 of workmen, and will be free from the objection of even im- 

 pliedly attempting to take the unauthorized or wrongful 

 control of the property, capital, or time of others. 



One result of voluntary cooperation, he thought, 

 would be the development of a spirit of loyalty as 

 a precious asset of the laboring man in any grade, 

 in any field; for no one can do a greater injury to 

 the cause of labor than to take loyalty out of the 

 category of active virtues. 



Waste of The great economic waste in labor often engaged 

 labor his attention, and he found its remedy in education: 



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