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...love. Kings have found that the abuse of power endangers their own lives and that to make themselves secure they must temper power with humanity. Social power feels its duty toward the ignorant and all the forces of education and religion are being brought to bear on the problem of their salvation. Humanity, then, has influenced power and has softened the effect which it would have had if left perfectly unchecked...
...Indian, that he must educate him for a place in our civilization. The century of dishonor, as it has been called, has really been a century of terrible mistakes. Out of those mistakes the country has gradually learnt the only proper and successful way of solving the problem, and that way has been shown to be simply giving the Indian his proper place in our social organization...
...capita for drinks was the yearly average of the drinking population. These views of the subject show us that it is a large but not an unmanageable one, that it influences our municipal and national difficulties, is only a superficial question. Behind all lies its significance as a moral problem...
...forces of labor and capital have been marshalled against each other. Both expect and all are ready for war. Arbitration would only mean patching up a treaty, without destroying the hostility between the two armies. Some more radical remedy then is necessary. The great problem is, what shall this remedy...
Then there are the ethics of the family. Here comes the divorce problem, the disruption of social groups. How shall man and woman stand in this organism? Lastly, charity, is the problem of the duty of rich to poor. From self-indulgence on the one hand to social resolution on the other is but a single logical step. Ethics says that stability and prosperity are only to be reach by establishing a relation of peaceful alliance...