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thor, Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, former Prime Minister 

 of England, tells us how the fine cycle of our human 

 interest includes three things: action, knowledge, ad- 

 miration; we act, we know, we admire. This seems to 

 me not only an elegant summary, but it presents per- 

 spective, and gives the due historic order. This is in 

 fact the order in which the present argument has to-day 

 come forward. Action, the practical in the narrow 

 sense, this is the all too dominant spirit of this time ; 

 knowledge, this is the dream of the student, of 

 Madame Curie, of Langley, of every toiler who made 

 possible Edison, and Graham Bell, and Wright; and 

 finally, admiration, this is the foundation of art and 

 of all the joy that springs from the appreciation and 

 apprehension of beauty. To complete realization of 

 right human living we need each and every one of these 

 phases. You may begin with either; action may 

 to knowledge and knowledge to admiration; or ad- 

 miration may lead to either of the other two, though 

 less likely. But the point I bring is that all three are 

 human, all three make up the fullness of normal human 

 happy, civilized, enlightened living. 



So much for our first danger and some of the possible 

 antidotes: now let us see about the second. Here are 

 certain facts. Notwithstanding all our progress, not- 

 withstanding all our electric lights and electric cars, 

 our roads and cities, our schools and laws, it still re- 

 mains true that a vast segment of our population con- 

 sists, and will probably long consist, of wage-earners. 

 By wage-earners I mean men who are laboring from day 

 to day in industries whose continuance they cannot, do 



