THE PROBLEM OF SIN AND THE RACE 2II 



silent partners, in fact, in works of destruction. 

 Tiiis view of life is not popular. Especially do 

 those who preach a religion of culture fail to 

 recognize it. 



The tendency of the higher education, where 

 the responsibility of service is not emphasized, 

 is to separate classes ; to cause the educated to 

 withdraw themselves from unpleasant and dis- 

 couraging conditions. It is much more delightful 

 to converse with congenial friends than to do 

 the work requisite for honest politics, to labour 

 for the enactment of wise laws, and to insist on 

 their execution ; but if, by the withdrawal of the 

 cultured classes from the responsibilities of citi- 

 zens, evil conditions become common, then those 

 who thus escape from turmoil and strife become 

 accessories to the crimes they might have pre- 

 vented. He who sees a ship going on the rocks 

 and sounds no warning is scarcely less guilty than 

 he who turns its prow toward the breakers. A 

 saloon is allowed to work ruin, because men who 

 might cause its removal never try to do so : a 

 young man is enticed into that place and induced 

 to drink ; under the influence of that drink he 

 kills a comrade. Who is the murderer.? The 

 man who fired the shot. Certainly, but also his 

 tempters, and, in a degree, those who might have 



