The Days of a Man 



D893 



"Man's physical wants are slight," he often said, 

 "but his intellectual needs are bounded only by 

 his capacity." 



The value of the study of Political Science as a 

 remedy for defects of government was clearly seen 

 by him: 



All governments are governments of public opinion, and in 

 the long run every people is as well governed as it deserves. 

 . . . Legislation has not, as a rule, been against the people, 

 but it has not done the good that it might. . . . No greater 

 blow can be struck at labor than that which renders its products 

 insecure. 



Value of Voluntary cooperation seemed to him a great 

 cooper*- force for good. Laying the corner stone of the Inner 

 Quadrangle, he said: 



Out of these suggestions grows the consideration of the 

 great advantages, especially to the laboring man, of coopera- 

 tion, by which each individual has the benefit of the intel- 

 lectual and physical forces of his associates. It is by the in- 

 telligent application of these principles that there will be found 

 the greatest lever to elevate the mass of humanity, and laws 

 should be formed to protect and develop cooperative associa- 

 tions. . . . They will accomplish all that is sought to be 

 secured by labor leagues, trades unions, and other federations 

 of workmen, and will be free from the objection of even im- 

 pliedly attempting to take the unauthorized or wrongful 

 control of the property, capital, or time of others. 



One result of voluntary cooperation, he thought, 

 would be the development of a spirit of loyalty as 

 a precious asset of the laboring man in any grade, 

 in any field; for no one can do a greater injury to 

 the cause of labor than to take loyalty out of the 

 category of active virtues. 



Waste of The great economic waste in labor often engaged 

 labor n j s attention, and he found its remedy in education: 



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