276 THE STATUS OF MAN. 



Men's Buddhist Association to have their grounds and build- 

 ings next door to the Young Men's Christian Association, so 

 long as neither of them starts a row over the wall. 



But a very much more serious situation exists in those na- 

 tions, where the existence of two classes is not recognized. 



Two classes A and B may coexist within one nation, and 

 marriages between members of the two different species may 

 be frequent enough to give a false impression of unity and yet 

 rare enough to keep the two separate as classes. In such a 

 nation the upper classes, the class which monopolizes prop- 

 erty to a great extent, and the resulting culture, is sure to 

 dominate, and it is hardly fair to blame its members for arrang- 

 ing things in the way which looks most logical to them. But 

 the other class, which is always a majority in densely popu- 

 lated countries, by the fact that inheritance of property makes 

 its accumulation continue for more than one generation, does 

 not really have a voice in matters of governing or law-making. 

 And when a great many intellectual people begin to feel that 

 they belong to this non-possessing class, which is bound to 

 happen with an increase of the facilities for study and such in- 

 ventions as that of the printing-press, this lower class, which 

 constitutes a numerical majority, will find out that it has no 

 hand in the arranging of its own affairs. As soon as this hap- 

 pens, there will be resentment and a wish to alter conditions. 

 And as far as we can see, in such a case, two alternatives only 

 seem to present themselves. In the first place, they may 

 think of a system of government which will be representative, 

 in such a way that the two classes which make up the nation 

 will be represented in the same proportions in which they are 

 present in the nation. 



The other alternative, which will occur to them, is a radical 

 change of government. They may want to overthrow the rule 

 by class A altogether and start ruling the nation themselves, 

 monopolizing the business of governing and law-making. This 

 is what has been happening in Russia. 



It will probably not occur to them, that there is a third course 



