" The glory of the sum of things " does not come with a flash. There are always remedial agencies actively at work. They have saved civilization again and again, when the economic order seemed about to break down, when eflFete governments have fallen in cataclysms which have almost wrecked the social fabric ; when mankind seemed to be wandering in a wilderness of ignorance, doubt and despair. Human nature is a tough, elastic, expansive article. If common sense is a product of the ages, so is what is termed " the corporate morality " of the race. Everything makes for what Burke said he loved, " a manly, moral, regulated liberty." It is hard for us to learn the imperative lesson that everything, except moral and spiritual elements, is only transitional. We are too much inclined to think that any existing status has come to stay. Not so. While evils do not cure themselves, evil is only the negative of the good. The human agent, with his enormous plasticity, constantly widening intelligence and marvelous capacity for growth, is always the instrument, guided by the unseen powers, that make for rectitude, to strike at wrong. There is always more good than evil ; otherwise rociety could not hold together. If progress has been slow, it is because it ought to be slow. In our economic order, the trust, the trade-unions -- often in our day instruments of danger -- are factors that in the end will tend to good. They are a part of the great synthetic movement which is unifying the i-ace. They will lead to a greater coherency in our industrial life. They are educational in their tendency.