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at once the power and the knowledge required to initiate 

 the needed reforms. 



The flowing tide is with us. We have great poets, 

 great writers, great thinkers, to cheer and guide us; and 

 an ever-increasing band of earnest workers to spread the 

 light and help on the good time coming. And as this 

 century has witnessed a material and intellectual ad- 

 vance wholly unprecedented in the history of human 

 progress, so the coming century will reap the full frui- 

 tion of that advance, in a moral and social upheaval of an 

 equally new and unprecedented kind, and equally great 

 in amount. That advance is prefigured in the stirring 

 lines of Sir Lewis Morris, with which I may fitly close 

 my work: 



" There shall come, from out this noise of strife and groaning, 



A broader and a juster brotherhood, 

 A deep equality of aim, postponing 



All selfish seeking to the general good. 

 There shall come a time when each shall to another, 

 Be as Christ would have him, brother unto brother. 



" There shall come a time when brotherhood grows stronger 

 Than the narrow bounds which now distract the world; 



When the cannons roar and trumpets blare no longer, 

 And the ironclad rusts and battle-flags are furled; 



When the bars of creed and speech and race, which sever, 



Shall be fused in one humanity forever." 



