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ment can undertake, and should, now, constitute its first duty. 

 They are the essential first step to any really effective social ad- 

 vance; and if all earnest reformers of every class would unite their 

 forces, their efforts would soon be crowned with success. I have 

 done what I can to prove the utter breakdown of our present state of 

 social disorganization a state which causes all the advances in 

 science, and in our command over the forces of nature, to be abso- 

 lutely powerless to check the growth of poverty in our midst. Every 

 attempt to salve or to hide our social ulcers has failed, and must 

 continue to fail, because those ulcers are' the necessary product of 

 Competitive Individualism. 



I therefore call upon all earnest, thinking men and women to 

 devote their energies to advocating those more fundamental changes 

 which both theory and experience prove to be needed, and which 

 alone have any chance of success. 



For now though oft mistaken, oft despairing, 



At last, raethinks, at last I see the dawn; 

 At last, though yet a-faint, the awakening nations 



Proclaim the passing of the night forlorn ; 

 Soon shall the long-conceived child of Time 

 Be born of Progress soon the morn sublime 

 Shall hurst effulgent through the clouds of Earth. 

 And light Time's greatest page O Right, thy glorious birth! 



J. H. Dell. 



