PUBLIC SPIRIT 



measures what other men are to you, not as 

 so many individuals, but as men organically 

 related. It is estimated that through this 

 co-operation and the consequent amassing 

 of wealth one man may today, through his 

 own efforts, enjoy more satisfactions than he 

 could earn in ten centuries were he obliged 

 to begin and work without such aid. 



The authoritative aspect of social organi- 

 zation is also invaluable. A very poor 

 government is an infinite blessing compared 

 with anarchy. What thoughtful citizen of 

 the United States has not often thanked God 

 that we are not as Central and South Amer- 

 ica in this respect? 



Nor will government ever become un- 

 necessary. The well-meaning reformer who 

 wishes and expects to reduce it to mere 

 business administration, taking from it its 

 political character and every element of 

 authority, is laboring under a delusion. 

 Some power of coercion will always have to 

 be kept up among men, not because there 

 will forever be wicked ones in their num- 

 ber, but because men will never cease to be 



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