THE FUTURE EVOLUTION OF MAN 257 
questions which battle can never settle. God grant 
that we have come to a turning of the ways where 
the life of men, women and children, no matter 
how humble their station, shall stand higher in value 
than the profits of any commercial venture. God 
grant that we will soon be firm enough to declare 
that a business which can only live by sacrificing 
the health and strength of the workers must be 
counted an unprofitable business, and be allowed to 
cease. God grant finally that the American people 
may learn from the past to guard against a like fate 
in the future; that here may be the people whose 
strength, intelligence and uprightness shall lead the 
world; not for the sake of exceeding the world, but 
with the high mission of setting to the world an ex- 
ample of what can come to a vigorous, free and God- 
fearing people. 
In the early history of the evolution of man the 
struggle almost always concerns the individual. 
Gradually the family comes to be the fuller unit. 
Only that is success which leads to the success of 
this higher group. After a time the family broadens 
to the tribe, and then the tribe to the nation. The 
evolution of social institutions is at present going 
on at an enormously rapid rate. Throughout the civ- 
ilized world democracy is coming to its own. Even 
where the form of monarchy still prevails, the sub- 
