THE CALL OF THE LAND 



conditions fail, and the fortune of that work- 

 man is lowered. Society is in the same way 

 a co-operator with every one in all that he 

 is and does. What you think you accom- 

 plish is not wrought by you, but by you 

 environed and helped as you are. 



Intelligently viewed, the purely political 

 aspect of social organization is immensely 

 impressive. Human government is a won- 

 derful thing as complex and unfathom- 

 able as it is indispensable. The legislature 

 and the executive, the constitution and the 

 courts, the great body of laws, customary 

 and statute, the imposing array of legal 

 maxims, traditions and decisions, and, not 

 least, the morality and political genius of 

 the people, disposing them to law, order 

 and united action all this in effect goes to 

 make up government. A social-political 

 structure of this sort is about the most 

 precious possession which any people can 

 possibly inherit. All that you possess, 

 whether of mental or of material stores, be- 

 yond what would be yours had you always 

 lived in Central Africa, is due to society. It 



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