nder wise control,
monopolies, combinations, "trusts,"--all the facts which represent
organized injustice sink once for all to their own place.

Differ as we may, then, regarding methods and possibilities, one
question rises always for every soul alike,--What part have I in this
awakening, and what work with hands or head can I do to speed this time
to which all men are born, and of which to-day they know only the
promise? From lowest to highest, the material side has so dominated that
other needs have slipped out of sight; and to-day, often, the hands that
follow the machine in its almost human operations, are less human than
it. Matter is God, and for scientist and speculative philosopher, and
too often for social reformer also, the place and need of another God
ceases, and there is no hope for the toiler but to lie down at last in
the dust and find it sweet to him. Yet for him, and for each child of
man, is something as certain. Not the God of theology; not the God made
the fetich and blindly worshipped; but the Power whose essence is love
and inward constraint to righteousness, and to whom all men must one day
come, no matter through what dark ways or with what stumbling feet.

The vision is plain and clear of what the State must one day mean and
what the work of the world must be, when once more the devil of
self-seeking and greed flees to his own place, and each man knows that
his life is his own only as he gives it to high service, and to loving
thought for every weaker soul. The co-operative commonwealth must come;
and when it has come, all men will know that it is but the vision of
every age in which high souls have seen what future is for every child
of man, and have known that when the spirit of brotherhood rules once
for all, the city of God has in very truth descended from the heavens,
and men at last have found their own inheritance.

This is the future, remote even when most ardently desired; impossible,
unless with the dream is bound up the act that brings realization. And
when the nature and method of such act comes as question, and the word
is, What can be done to-day, in the hour that now is?--how shall
unlearned, unthinking minds bend themselves to these problems, when the
wisest have failed, and the world still struggles in bondage to custom,
the accumulated force of long-tolerated wrong--what can the answer be?

There is no enlightener like even the simplest act of real justice. It
is impossible