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...should be jealousies and misunderstandings between the groups thus separated as it is that there should be sectional and international jealousies where there is little mutual intercourse and acquaintance. It is toward the closing up of this social gap that all effective efforts at the settlement of the labor problem must be directed. President Eliot has done a great deal in this direction by bringing laborers and employers together, by promoting free and frank discussion between them, by taking part in these discussions, and by setting at all times an example of patience and tolerance and of a truly democratic...
...more far-reaching importance than the labor problem is that of maintaining democratic ideals and the democratic virtues of self-respecting freedom, tolerance and regard for law and the common good. Against the recrudescence of militarism and its accompanying vices of ceremonialism in religion and law, bossism and the demand for "regularity" in politics, and snobbery in social relations.--for these things can no more he dissociated than can snow and ice from winter weather.--President Eliot has thrown the weight of his influence. Though in a position where a man of lower ideals could have amply gratified aristocratic yearnings...
...actual economies and evils of industrial combinations. This portion of the book is followed by a comprehensive explanation of the principal measures which have been tried or proposed for the legal regulation of trusts. Here the author covers a field untouched in any other work on the trust problem...
...professions which deal with men and sociology divine help is especially needful, for to move men an appeal must be made to the divine qualities which are in them. This fact is particularly true in its application to the solution of the race problem. The spirit of the sixteenth century was to lie back and let God do one's work. The spirit of the twentieth century is to act progressively...
...Abbott will speak on "The Industrial Problem" at a meeting of the Graduates Club in Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. He will trace historically the rise of organizations, both of capital and of labor, and will show that they are necessary evolutions in the development of the race. He will also explain some considerations which must be applied to bring these organizations in harmony with democratic principles. The meeting will be open only to members of the club...