238 THE WHENOE AND THE WHITHER OF MAN 



to Greek art and letters, and to Roman law. And this 

 is another illustration of the advantage or necessity of 

 the fusion of races. 



To answer the question, " Which stratum or class in 

 the community or world at large is heir to the fut- 

 ure ? " we must seek the one which is stiU to a large 

 extent generalized. It must be maintaining, in a sound 

 body, a steady, even if slow, advance of all the mental 

 powers. It will not be remarkable for the high devel- 

 opment or lack of any quality or power ; it must have 

 a fair amount of all of them well correlated. It must be 

 well balanced, " good all around," as we say. And this 

 class is evidently neither the highest nor the lowest in 

 the community, but the " common people, whom God 

 must have loved, because he made so many of them." 



They have, as a rule, fair-sized or large families. 

 Their bodies are kept sound and vigorous by manual 

 labor. They are compelled to think on all sorts of 

 questions and to solve them as best they can. They 

 have a healthy balance of mental faculties, even if they 

 are not very learned or artistic. They are kept tem- 

 perate because they cannot afford many luxuries. 

 Their healthy life prevents an undue craving for them. 

 They help one another and cultivate unselfishness. 

 The good old word, neighbor, means something to 

 them. They have a sturdy morality, and you can al- 

 ways rely upon them in gTeat moral crises. They are 

 patriotic and public-spirited ; they have not so many, 

 or so enslaving, selfish interests. They have always 

 been trained to self-sacrifice and the endurance of hard- 

 ship ; and heroism is natural to them. They have a 

 strong will, cultivated by the battle of daily life. And 

 among them religion never loses its hold. 



