CHALLENGE OF NEW DAY 23 



tive, to privilege, to glorifying the power of the strong. 

 It has classified the masses of humankind as the " com- 

 mon people" -presumably the others are the "un- 

 common people " ! 



Nobody really fails to understand that there are wide 

 differences in the capacities of men. Some of us have 

 had to discover with sorrow and keen regret that we 

 must work under many limitations limitations that 

 some others do not seem to have. We have to submit 

 to the fact that there are others abler and more com- 

 petent than ourselves. This elementary lesson of life 

 some people never learn. But even when the lesson is 

 learned, our minds are not satisfied with a situation that 

 still persists. After a time the abler people, the strong, 

 so arranged affairs not usually maliciously or even 

 always consciously but actually arrange affairs so 

 that it becomes increasingly easy for the few to procure 

 the things and the conditions that all people aspire to 

 possess, and increasingly difficult for the many even to 

 try to obtain them. The abler few apparently knew 

 how to plan ahead. They are the organizers of 

 schemes and programs. So long as the world goes 

 forward on the basis of each man for himself, the 

 strong push ahead. So we have developed leadership, 

 statesmanship, even aristocracies. Sometimes these ar- 

 rangements result from sheer ability, careless however 

 of the interests of the many. More often they are the 

 persistence of old privileges which possibly once were 

 earned, but which have been passed on to those who 

 had no part in deserving them. But the rest of us 

 the common people have grown more and more im- 

 patient of such arrangements. The great, fundamen- 

 tal, abiding promise of the New Day is that future 

 arrangements among men, alike in respect to work, to 



