The Future Cannot Be Legislated. All That

The Moral Sense Is A Natural Faculty In Us Like The Sense Of Smell Or Of Touch.

Educated Men - "civilized," As Fourier Used To Say With Disdain - Tremble At The Idea That Society Might Some Day Be Without Judges, Police, Or Gaolers.

But Times And Tempers Are Changed. Rebels Are Everywhere To Be Found Who No Longer Wish To Obey The Law Without Knowing Whence It Comes, What Are Its Uses, And Whither Arises The Obligation To Submit To It, And The Reverence With Which It Is Encompassed. The Rebels Of Our Day Are Criticizing The Very Foundations Of Society Which Have Hitherto Been Held Sacred, And First And Foremost Amongst Them That Fetish, Law.

Man Is Appealed To Be Guided In His Acts, Not Merely By Love, Which Is Always Personal, Or At Best Tribal, But By His Perception Of His Oneness With Each Human Being. In The Practice Of Mutual Aid, Which We Can Re-trace To The Earliest Beginnings Of Evolution, We Thus Find The Positive And Undoubted Origin Of Our Ethical Conceptions; And We Can Affirm That In The Ethical Progress Of Man, Mutual Support- Not Mutual Struggle- Has Had The Leading Part.

But What Right Had I To These Highest Joys, When All Around Me Was Nothing But Misery And Struggle For A Moldy Bit Of Bread; When Whatsoever I Should Spend To Enable Me To Live In That World Of Higher Emotions Must Needs Be Taken From The Very Mouths Of Those Who Grew The Wheat And Had Not Bread Enough For Their Children?