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I Came To Washington To Work For God, Fdr, And The Millions Of Forgotten, Plain Common Workingmen.

Our Idea Of What Constitutes Social Good Has Advanced With The Procession Of The Ages, From Those Desperate Times When Just To Keep Body And Soul Together Was An Achievement, To The Great Present When "good" Includes An Agreeable, Stable Civilization Accessible To All, The Opportunity Of Each To Develop His Particular Genius And The Privilege Of Mutual Usefulness.

But With The Slow Menace Of A Glacier, Depression Came On. No One Had Any Measure Of Its Progress; No One Had Any Plan For Stopping It. Everyone Tried To Get Out Of Its Way.

It's Only When We're Relaxed That The Thing Way Down Deep In All Of Us - Call It The Subconscious Mind, The Spirit, What You Will - Has A Chance To Well Up And Tell Us How We Shall Go.

This Leads To A Question - If A Great Many People Are For A Certain Project, Is It Necessarily Right? If The Vast Majority Is For It, Is It Even More Certainly Right? This, To Be Sure, Is One Of The Tricky Points Of Democracy. The Minority Often Turns Out To Be Right, And Though One Believes In The Efficacy Of The Democratic Process, One Has Also To Recognize That The Demand Of The Many For A Particular Project At A Particular Time May Mean Only Disaster.