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would he erect leisure-class aristocracies by 

 laying up treasures on earth, but expressing his 

 constructive fraternal nature he would give as 

 freely as through the inheritance of the ages 

 and the cooperation of his fellows he had re- 

 ceived. Thus would treasure be laid up in an 

 actual heaven of harmonized human relations. 

 This is the ideal which is urging itself upon 

 man, and which finds some sheltered flowering 

 in the family and community life, but which 

 is as yet a stranger to the world of govern- 

 ment, of finance, and of international relations. 

 So in a world where the finer things of life are 

 trampled down, we can only hope to check the 

 mob spirit by enforcing a lock step until the 

 panic is quelled and the spiritual nature has a 

 chance to grow. 



The new order, if it is wise enough to escape 

 the anarchy of forcible expropriation, will ac- 

 cept the fact of the present supremacy of 

 capital, but it will hope to modify the adminis- 

 tration of capital from irresponsible privilege 

 toward restrained service. The energy and 

 administrative ability that are today building 

 predatory trusts will be enlisted, as far as may 

 be, in the interests of the public. This end 

 will be more feasible under the control of a 



