146 THE EVOLUTION OF THE COMMON MAN. 



A right and a wrong to every question. In long run 

 must be settled right. Else comes up again and again. 

 The highest wisdom is the only wisdom, not the wis- 

 dom that carries elections. 



"They enslave their children's children who make 

 compromise with sin," or with ignorance. 



Slavery ; how the question rose for settlement. John 

 Brown. Lincoln. 



Tariff. Finance. Paternalism. 



There is a right settlement. There is no other. A 

 representative government must be one of wisdom. 

 Government is education. But government must fur- 

 nish education. The children of the future must meet 

 these questions. Else not met. Else our republic will 

 go down as others have in u unreason, anarchy, and 

 blood." 



Hence duty of civic training. In real patriotism. 

 To know is to back knowledge by-action. 



Duty of higher education. No longer clergyman or 

 gentleman, but every man. Educate your rulers. 

 Why we should " vex at the land's ridiculous misery." 



Industrial problem confronts us. Hastened by arti- 

 ficial stimulus, waste, carelessness. Bad blood of im- 

 migration. Dead past not buried its dead. Flung on 

 our shores. 



Danger not in power and greed of rich, but weakness 

 of poor. Coxeyism a painful exhibition of it. 



Industrial problem solved only by better men and 

 women. This generation cannot be helped. Save the 

 children. Waste none of them. Purpose of kinder- 

 garten, industrial school, university, of all worthy 

 schools. Not to make conditions easier ; easy enough 



