238 The Intellectual Revolution 



workers have at bottom the same task, — the 

 establishment of a true philosophy of social, 

 political, and international justice, as the basis 

 for the reconstruction and redemption of human 

 society. The peace movement, with its goal of 

 world federation, is the unifying thesis of all 

 social reform, and from a realization of this fact 

 and the resulting co-operation of all forces making 

 for social progress may be expected an unparal- 

 leled accession of power and rapidity of advance. 

 Social workers have been justly compared by Mr. 

 Hobhouse to a number of guerrilla bands, striving 

 at cross purposes, and even warring against each 

 other, but with the coming of the intellectual re- 

 volution they will be transformed into an army of 

 social reform, irresistible in the strength of its unity 

 and of its demand for righteousness and justice 

 as the universal principle of the expansion of 

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The reconstruction of ideas must precede the 

 reconstruction of society, however, and it is to this 

 intellectual revolution and the indispensable clarifi- 

 cation of thought that we must first direct our 

 attention. Thus far we have been engaged in a de- 

 tailed examination of the errors of the philosophy 

 of force, — biological sociological, political, econo- 

 mic, and moral. Following this work of destruc- 

 tion, the clearing of the ground of the ruins of the 

 old structure in order to make way for the new, we 

 shall proceed, after a survey of the extent to which 

 the philosophy of force has distorted the whole 



