" If you enthrone it (liberty) alone as means and end, it will lead society first to anarchy, afterward to the despotism which you fear," says ]\Iazzini, one of the shining liberators of the last century.

"' If every man has all the liberty he wants, no man has any liberty," says Goethe. In other words, the rights of man must be articulat*»d with the duties of man. Freedom cannot exist without order. They are concentric. \\'ithout the recognition of the sanctity of obligation to others, the age-long aspiration of the race for libert}- is an impotent endeavor. It would have plunged eyeless through the cycles in which it has worked its way into civilization, had it not been that reciprocity, mutual 'help, is a basis of its being. Mankind can never be absolved from this eternal law. We are now told that a reaction has set in against democracy ; that the results of the democratic ideal, so far as attained, are a failure ; that the tyranny of the mob has succeeded to that of the single despot ; that in the most liberal governments of the world, even in the United States and England, where the problem of selfgovernment has been most thoroughly worked out, the people are forgetting their high ideals and are using their collective power for base and ignoble purposes ; that the moral tone of the government is lowered ; that an insane greed for wealth has infected the nations : that there is a blunting of moral responsibility and a cheapening of national aims.