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benevolence, there is a visible and real deprivation of assist- 

 ance upon which many emotional natures continue to de- 

 pend; and we see this need imperfectly supplied, by religious 

 associations. The functions of government thus limited are 

 not however, and cannot be entirely divorced from the regu- 

 lation of morality. It is still a recognized duty, especially 

 of the local and municipal governments, to support and 

 prosecute research and to disseminate knowledge, and 

 generally to make effective the co-operative desires of the 

 association, so,me of which relate to practical morality 

 separated from religious beliefs. This involves the actual 

 performance of such activities as are necessarily the conduct 

 of the entire aggregate. 



The national and state governments obviously must care 

 for the relations with other nations; and the final enforce- 

 ments of the awards of justice, and maintenance of law 

 among their own citizens; and must provide for continual 

 adaptation and revision and extension of the codified law to 

 keep it in harmony with changing circumstance and to pro- 

 vide for growth and progress according to the advancing 

 ideas of the people. But the tendency is to direct and limit 

 the latitude of the executive government, even in these things 

 which cannot be taken from it, by a written constitutional 

 agreement in which the final authority is vested or rather 

 is found in the qualified citizens. 



In regard to the question of qualification for citizenship 

 there is definite tendency toward a recognition of sane 

 maturity as sufficient. This is the function of a steady al- 

 truistic progress in the removal from the list of disabling 

 conditions; those of poverty, and ignorance, and faith, and 



