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tion of practicable progress can we achieve 

 salvation. 



4. Regulation of Economic Freedom 



The immediate future will demand less of 

 the riotous freedom of the past and more disci- 

 pline under expert leadership. It is true that 

 the attractive ideal of freedom miay theoreti- 

 cally be workable, and perhaps in the distant 

 future when ethical intelligence has been 

 reached it will become practicable. Society 

 today is like a crowd in a theater startled into 

 a mob by the cry of fire. The fear of poverty 

 and the desire for economic independence cause 

 a rush for the possession of property under 

 which legitimate business is stifled and the un- 

 aggressively useful are trampled underfoot. If 

 men actually lived in the spirit of the Sermon 

 on the Mount there could be no such thing as 

 the ownership of property apart from its social 

 use; capitalization and the consequent exploita- 

 tion of the useful by the aggressive would dis- 

 appear; the instinct of mutual service through 

 artistic workmanship would find expression; 

 and organized regulative and charitable pro- 

 grams would be rendered unnecessary. Man 

 would take no thought for the morrow, nor 



