own itself it is found that true regard for all mankind has been
the cardinal doctrine. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
Soon a broad catholicity of ideas seizes the multitude and man no more
lives for himself than he lives for others. He who lives closest to
the true heart of humanity lives nearest to God. Show me a man who
lives for himself alone, and you will present almost a social outcast.
Society tolerates him no more. In all the plans and calculations of
life he is not numbered.

For two thousand years the command has come stronger and stronger for a
closer unity on social lines and fraternal regard. Not to segregate
but to crystalize and raise the status. The conditions of our social
life are such that we can not live entirely to ourselves. The monk may
withdraw himself from the gaze of the world, the anchorite may seek a
hiding place in caves and dens, but they ignore entirely the demands of
society upon them. If I were the only person in the world there would
be no social problem. I would commune with myself and God and nature
about me, without reference to my surroundings. There would be no
social environment; no one to please, no one to whom I am indebted by
nature or acquired obligation, and so I would remain. But we do not
find the conditions to so exist. We must look squarely in the face the
facts as they are. On all sides we are surrounded by a multitude who
rightly make demands of us and which we can not ignore. If I were
alone, I would do as the patriarchs of old did, erect a little altar of
stone, rude and unsightly, and bow myself down before it and commune
with Deity. But here we find that different types of men have
different religious views, and different spiritual aspirations, and so
churches must be erected; and while all tend to the same end, each
hopes to reach it by a different route. I must respect all these
views. Only one can be my view, but my social surroundings are such
that all have rights which I am bound to yield some obedience to.

Again, if I were alone there would be no need of law, because both good
and bad would be represented in my personality. There could be no
murder, no crime, no punishment; but with all the manifold people with
different tendencies, there must be law, or the social fabric would go
to pieces by the strong trampling on the weak. Hence I must stand with
reference to the law on the right side or the wrong side, and all
humanity reg