THE CALL OF THE LAND 



finite in wisdom. The best men will quarrel 

 over their supposed rights, stopping the 

 wheels of industry. There must be the 

 right, if necessary, to coerce them to break 

 such a deadlock. 



And, further, these infinitely valuable 

 treasures society and the state are not the 

 creatures of a day, but of all time. No peo- 

 ple by itself ever created its government in 

 the large sense we have indicated. As Mr. 

 Spencer has well pointed out, while the 

 materials and instrumentalities of govern- 

 ment are of individual origin, the structure 

 as a whole and the final effects of govern- 

 ment are due to a higher intelligence. 

 Washington, Franklin, and other founders 

 of our constitution did not originate this 

 nation. They started with a civic order 

 which already had its foundations in the 

 English constitution and a century of rich 

 political development in these colonies. No 

 more did the barons of the Great Charter 

 found the English state. They, too, built 

 upon old substructures, particularly upon 



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