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THE 
 LARGER LIFE 
 
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THE 
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To 
 FRANKLIN FORD 
 
 rHE circling Spheres go racing down the voids, 
 And the inconstant Seasons change and fade, 
 While one ttnfading and ennobling Faith 
 Flames in your mental skies ; fair as the dawn 
 That ushers in the glad and triumphing day 
 When Truth, the Ultimate, the Avenger, 
 Shall bear to men the tidings Be of hope ! 
 The earnest of the iiew intelligence 
 When she shall still the old, unhappy Fear, 
 And scatter blessings where all faith was dead, 
 And drive Despair, unfriended, to the Pit. 
 
 The sane and vivid vision that you saw 
 
 When all the world was blind or would not see, 
 
 Shall yet enrich the nation of your pride 
 
 With organized, august publicity ; 
 
 Yet clear the Temple of the Verbalists 
 
 And function blithe Factfinders ere they pass 
 
 To the Unbroken Silence toil endears. 
 
 And if , for a brief space, the stealing hours 
 May darken counsel and make wild the ways 
 That lead to Unity ; ah, then not less 
 Shall men of mettle muster to the Catise, 
 The old, good Cause that will not be denied 
 Till hag-rid Chaos, vanquished, flees the field, 
 Nor scapes the end, the appointed end, that waits 
 When ordered Truth shall wing the laughing word. 
 
 S. F. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Dedication : The circling Spheres go racing down 
 
 voids 
 
 I I live in no mean Republic, myself . . 
 
 II The sorceries of the inventive mind 
 
 III The unities thro' Commerce are forming 
 
 IV The distinctions are never hard or fast 
 V The new State is a system of organs 
 
 VI In the wide revision of working-lines . 
 
 VII Commerce is the moving Spirit of Man 
 
 VIII It was Commerce invented integrity 
 
 IX The clash of interest that frightens some 
 
 X The Self, in relation, has ever been . . 
 
 XI It is the story of social progress . . . 
 
 XII The social is but man in relation . . 
 
 XIII Scientific truth is ceasing to be . . . 
 
 XIV Thro' lack of political science . . . 
 
 XV As men but divide the better to work . 
 
 XVI The call of the hour is to clearly know 
 
 XVII Men govern, as they are governed in turn 
 
 XVIII The unconscious ones are the amateurs 
 
 XIX In the mental darkness men stab and slay 
 
 XX While Invention is building new highways 
 
 XXI The powerful prepossessions of men , , 
 
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 XXII Every normal enterprise upon earth 
 
 XXIII The American Runnymede is on . . 
 
 XXIV The tangle of statute must yield to Law 
 XXV As progress is from private to public 
 
 XXVI The compelling commercial unities . 
 
 XXVII In the fading English statute-books . 
 
 XXVIII The new Title Guarantee companies 
 
 XXIX The Bank is an organ of government 
 
 XXX The system of credit clearing-houses 
 
 XXXI The Railway Traffic Association . . 
 
 XXXII The labour Trusts are governing organs . 
 
 XXXIII The future of the joint-stock principle . . 
 
 XXXIV The wage-payer that fears the labour Trusts 
 XXXV The proposal to change the present form . 
 
 XXXVI The sense of a sovran community . . . 
 
 XXXVII The theorists talk of majorities . : . . 
 
 XXXVIII The peddling of ballots to every man . . 
 
 XXXIX The essential truth of the universe . „ . 
 
 XL When the bonny Blue Flag went down in 
 
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 XLI America is grinding its colours .... 
 
 XLII The real man of letters is en route . . . 
 
 XLIII The fretful chaos in literature 
 
 XLIV The newspaper men of the passing hour . 
 
 XLV The journals of the Tar and Feather school 
 
 XLVI The Obvious has been so exhausted . . 
 
 XLVII Yet other journals as freely assert . . . 
 
 XLVIII The phrase 'independent journalism' . . 
 
 XLIX The thought of integrity in news .... 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 LI The machinery of intelligence . . . 
 
 LII In a trial for murder by poison . . . 
 
 LIU Ye shall know the truth, said the clear-eyed Christ 
 
 LIV The greatest ' sensation ' is that of truth 
 
 LV The commanding thought of integrity . 
 
 LVI Education is contact with ordered life 
 
 LVII The question of women's ' equality ' . 
 
 LVIII The dream has been of developing Self 
 
 LIX So the Self is universal organ . . . 
 
 LX The long hope of the sanguine ' reformer 
 
 LXI Fifty years of excessive repression 
 
 LXII The antient, eternal duel of Sex . . 
 
 LXIII The social body needs freedom to move 
 
 LXIV The common notion of brotherly love 
 
 LXV As all sound Religion is one with life 
 
 LXVI My God is not of a ghostly Beyond . 
 
 Epilogue : What is truth ? cried the curious Pilate 
 
 Notes 
 
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THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 I live in no mean Republic, myself, 
 
 And know the quiet aims 
 That the moving intelligence brings to men 
 
 Unsung of climbing fames. 
 
 The faith of Democracy lights the land 
 
 From sentried sea to sea; 
 And degrading opinion does not thrive 
 
 Since fact has functioned free. 
 
 Lo, this is the nation where two and two 
 
 When added make but four, 
 And never five, as the Primitives said 
 
 That failed to keep the score. 
 
2 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 The men of To-morrow are on the march, 
 
 And antient fictions fade, 
 For the Fact-finders carry full-circle 
 
 Where truth is wooed by trade. 
 
 The bars are down between thought and act, 
 
 The seeing soul is freed ; 
 The expression is one with Life itself, 
 
 And action, one with creed. 
 
 II 
 The sorceries of the inventive mind 
 
 Make this the Golden Age, 
 For pagan myths are usual and mild 
 
 Since Science turned the page. 
 
 Electric wires in mystic meshes stretch 
 
 And thrill the girdled earth, 
 Till space is sensitized from pole to pole 
 
 For every fact of worth. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 And the wireless messages come and go 
 
 Where'er the need is found, 
 As intelligence travels like magic 
 
 The grey globe round and round. 
 
 The telephone of the tremulous coil 
 
 That parted voices span, 
 Has conquered long distance and given birth 
 
 To the Freed Speech of man. 
 
 And out of the calling cities and towns, 
 
 And down the steel-flung trail, 
 The spirit of steam goes quiring to men 
 
 The paean of the rail. 
 
 And free of the far-shimmering harbours, 
 
 The Liners race and run 
 To the jocund beat of the plunging Screws 
 
 That make the nations one ; 
 
4 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 They float the flag of Commercial Romance 
 
 From zone to farther zone ; 
 The old flag that the austral fires have blazed, 
 
 The boreal night has known. 
 
 Ill 
 The unities thro' Commerce are forming 1 
 
 That yield the perfect State ; 
 The individual functions to the full, 
 
 The credit-paths are straight. 
 
 The related man reaches to action 
 
 In Nature's vast machine, 
 A part of the world-moving organism, 
 
 Subjected yet serene. 
 
 The rim is in clear call of the centre, 
 
 The centre of the rim ; 
 And the battery where the Fact-finder sits 
 
 Marks oneness to the brim. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 5 
 
 When the part is in order with the whole, 
 
 In tranquil touch sans strife, 
 Friction is lessened to the point of ease, 
 
 And lo, the larger life ! 
 
 So the two enthusiasms of men — 
 
 The Study and the Mart — 
 Are to shed their exclusive pretensions, 
 
 And seek a common art. 
 
 IV 
 
 The distinctions are never hard or fast. 
 
 Physical science men 
 Are failing to locate matter so far 
 
 In all their pregnant ken : 
 
 Each new isolation is found to be 
 
 A new relation still, 
 And so the relationship stretches on 
 
 Beyond their midway skill. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 A crystal thought is the concept that rose 
 Thro' study of man's frame; 2 
 
 His sympathetic and cerebral nerves 
 Reveal organic aim. 
 
 Applying the thought to the social form, 
 
 The State is seen to be 
 A supreme work of art that is fashioned 
 
 To ply in sympathy : 
 
 For in treating it men have proceeded, 
 
 Thro* painful ways and slow, 
 By the only pattern provided them 
 
 In Life's unpausing flow. 
 
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 The new State is a system of organs, 
 
 And thro' each pulsing part 
 The moving intelligence comes and goes 
 
 To shape the social art. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 7 
 
 Ere the general interest functions, 
 
 And consciousness is clear, 
 A few unrelated class interests 
 
 Are causing idle fear. 
 
 They type the false growths round a broken joint 
 
 Within the frame of man 
 If the setting has been too long delayed 
 
 To suit the surgeon's plan. 
 
 So Commerce acts as re-forming agent, 
 
 In brutal guise but sure, 
 Thro' the incoming of the newer thought — 
 
 The Competition Cure ! 
 
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 In the wide revision of working-lines 
 
 That nurtured needs invite, 
 The competitive principle appears 
 
 In a redeeming light. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 While the many are viewed as competing 
 
 When all are righting each 
 Thro' the tendering of lower prices, 
 
 That hasty Cheap Jacks teach — 
 
 To view it from the numerical point, 
 
 And from that point alone, 
 Is to overlook the play of the Trust 
 
 Where quality is shown. 
 
 With the saner and centralized action, 
 
 Competition may rise 
 To include the possible price-cutting 
 
 That keen consumers prize. 
 
 To advance each division of Commerce 
 
 Unto the higher plane 
 Is to follow the Law of Production 
 
 That merges art and gain. 
 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 The finer quality and lower price 
 
 Compel the larger sale: 
 This simple rule of the unified Trust 
 
 Was never born to fail. 
 
 Competition is but the social force 
 
 Trained on a common end : 
 'T is unthinkable between men and things 
 
 Save thro' a social trend. 
 
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 Commerce is the moving Spirit of Man 3 
 
 That stands for every act, 
 As the collective division of labour 
 
 That turns upon the fact. 
 
 The primary division of labour 
 
 In the organic State 
 Lies midway between the fact and the act, 
 
 For Science to relate : 
 
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 It is the intelligence division — 
 The news trade, if you please — 
 
 That has to rise to the level of fact, 
 Or scientific ease : 
 
 For no State can reach organization, 
 
 Authentic and sun-clear, 
 Till division between the fact and act 
 
 Is ordered and austere. 
 
 There 's division but not separation — 
 As known to central sight — 
 
 For the fact is completed in the act 
 When thought is winged in flight. 
 
 Our reliance on the astronomer 
 To learn the hour and place 
 
 To best observe an eclipse of the sun - 
 The points in time and space — 
 
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 Will convey the abounding relation 
 
 Between the fact and deed, 
 For the fact is one side of the action — 
 
 The side that has the lead. 
 
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 It was Commerce invented integrity 
 And gave to Truth her wings ; 
 
 And the social salvation principle 
 Still unto Commerce clings. 
 
 It is clearly on profit-seeking lines 
 (Which dowered pedants flout) 
 
 That the social reorganization 
 Is being brought about. 
 
 The simple and free-working relation 
 
 In which the classes meet 
 Was not born of the charity concept, 
 
 Or sentimental bleat. 
 
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 As men are brave to the point of parting 
 
 From their Utopian dreams, 
 They confess that Commerce, the butt of cant, 
 
 Lights life with saving gleams. 
 
 IX 
 
 The clash of interest that frightens some 
 
 Is music to my ears, 
 For I catch in its torn and tangled chords, 
 
 Of crowding hopes and fears, 
 
 The undertones of the process thro' which 
 
 Society shall reach 
 Unto the last differentiation 
 
 The unities may teach, 
 
 And so come at last, in God's own good hour, 
 
 To see its Self in deed 
 As a living and thriving organism 
 
 In touch with every need. 
 
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 The division but marks the relation 4 
 
 In any age or clime, 
 For the onward sweep of the principle 
 
 Is one with lapsing Time, 
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 The Self, in relation, has ever been 
 
 The Charmer of mankind, 
 As the binding-force of society 
 
 And driving-force of mind. 
 
 The old conception of politics 
 
 Put Self and State apart, 
 And the separation was frozen hard 
 
 In Blackstone's static art; 
 
 But the influence that brought it about 
 
 Will make it disappear, 
 For the locomotive and telegraph 
 
 Have drawn the Distant near. 
 
i 4 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 The old, separate classifications 
 
 Marked separated men ; 
 With the elimination of distance, 
 
 They seek a common ken. 
 
 The collective action has grown so fierce 
 
 That organs of the whole 
 Are transcending the classifications 
 
 That traced the old control. 
 
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 It is the story of social progress 
 
 Of communication born, 
 That the Spirit of Inquiry opened 
 
 When mind saluted morn. 
 
 The lure of the Purple Distance has been 
 
 The stimulus of thought, 
 As to fathom its fabled mysteries 
 
 The old Fact-finders wrought. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 15 
 
 The unceasing hunt of the absolute, 
 
 The always burning dream 
 To break the Great Silence that grimly rounds 
 
 Death's immemorial gleam, 
 
 Was ever in close alliance with those 
 
 That tracked, thro' evil days — 
 As the daring conquerors of distance — 
 
 The world's uncharted ways: 
 
 The philosopher and geographer 
 
 Have had a common quest : 
 The adventure of thought, the flight of mind, 
 
 Has wooed them East and West. 
 
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 The social is but man in relation, 
 
 As, in this time and place, 
 There is nothing outside for hope or fear 
 
 To qualify or trace, 
 
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 All action is social from first to last, 
 
 And government is seen 
 As collective action that types the Self 
 
 Where common needs are keen. 
 
 It is only division of labour, 5 
 (Whate'er the State men claim), 
 
 And it has to be fairly recognized 
 As ordered private aim. 
 
 The functions of government, far and near, 
 
 Are individual led, 
 For, strange to say, every organ of State 
 
 Has a Self at its head. 
 
 It is always the individual, 
 
 However seen or shown, 
 Thro' his 'public' or 'private' relation 
 
 At any moment known. 
 
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 There is no clear evidence yet to prove 
 
 That action by the State 
 Is more in the interest of the whole 
 
 Than private deeds equate. 
 
 Government and Commerce go hand in hand. 
 
 The organs of control 
 Arise with the forming consciousness 
 
 Of the collective whole. 
 
 The source of all law, or government, 
 
 Is scientific fact, 
 As the courts of arbitration assume 
 
 In measuring an act. 
 
 The long quest is political science 
 
 Since Runnymede arose 
 To type Democracy's idea 
 
 Where'er her bugle blows. 
 
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 XIII 
 
 Scientific truth is ceasing to be 
 
 The province of the few, 
 For, woven into the life of the world, 
 
 It functions thro' and thro'. 
 
 There are no scientific subjects 
 
 As lettered prigs maintain, 
 The subject of Science is all of Life, 
 
 Its laughter and its pain. 
 
 What the shrewd chemists call exact knowledge 
 
 Is order in the deed, 
 For any subject is scientific 
 
 When all its facts are freed. 
 
 The incoming science of politics 
 
 Is the science of news. 
 The compulsion that resides in a Fact 
 
 Gives Life its moving cues. 
 
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 XIV 
 
 Thro' lack of political science 
 
 The Social Quacks debate 
 In all manner of mindless jargon 
 
 Over the coming State. 
 
 Once political science is ordered, 
 
 The vain dispute will cease, 
 And, like the working astronomers, 
 
 Men may confer in peace. 
 
 The literature of the groping mind 
 
 Insistently appeals 
 To the unified soldiers of Science 
 
 To trace the Law that heals. 
 
 Society must be objectified 
 
 Thro' systematic rule 
 Till the State is seen as an organism, 
 
 Or scientific tool. 
 
20 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 The old organs that once were classified 
 
 As ' government ' alone, 
 Must be set in relation to the whole, 
 
 And integration shown. 
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 As men but divide the better to work 
 
 Unto a common end, 
 The division of labour principle 
 
 Is world-wide in its trend. 
 
 The advance of the Self turns upon it 
 
 And, as division clears, 
 The dawn of the governing principle 
 
 In sunny guise appears. 
 
 So the true evolution of Commerce 
 And, therefore, of the State, 
 
 Is one with the division of labour — 
 The moving hand of fate. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 21 
 
 The far-seeing science of politics 
 
 Has deftly to reveal 
 The major and the minor divisions 
 
 That form the commonweal. 
 
 So the Self will be set in relation 
 
 To the collective soul, 
 And the freed divisions of social force 
 
 Marked in the marching whole. 
 
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 The call of the hour is to clearly know 
 
 The trend in time and space 
 Of the fierce, world-compelling agencies 
 
 That Commerce has to face. 
 
 The locomotive and electric wire 
 
 Flash into full relief 
 The elimination of distance — 
 
 Of modern facts, the chief. 
 
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 Comes the resultant co-ordination, 
 
 The new conceit of Life, 
 And political science emerges 
 
 To lessen civil strife. 
 
 Direct rule by the individual 
 
 Is passing into act, 6 
 And Society finally faces 
 
 Self-government in fact. 
 
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 Men govern, as they are governed in turn, 
 
 Thro' each relation shown, 
 They mould and are moulded with every 
 thought, 
 
 However named or known. 
 
 Tho' the ballot-crazed Socialists murmur, 
 
 We all vote day and day, 
 In addition to formal occasions 
 
 That free the nose-count play. 
 
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 The path-finder of the uplifting force 
 
 Governs his fellowmen 
 Thro' revealing the mental direction 
 
 That lights their lesser ken. 
 
 A clerk may outvote his official chief 
 
 In the compelling case, 
 And force the authentic action to life 
 
 For unborn years to face. 
 
 We rule in proportion to all our light 
 
 As measured by the fact 
 We bring to the centres of social sway 
 
 To shape the ordered act. 
 
 All kinds of Elections are hourly held 
 
 To fix the fate of man, 
 And seal the august and final decrees 
 
 Beyond our guess or plan. 
 
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 XVIII 
 
 The unconscious ones are the amateurs 
 
 Of science and the arts. 
 Those that aim at political healing 
 
 Must know the social parts. 
 
 The ordered and ordering mind is rare, 
 
 And when it comes in view 
 It will either be crowned or crucified 
 
 To suit the ruling crew. 
 
 Till the right is ready, might is right 
 
 Down all Life's tragic slope; 
 The Bigot says should; but Science says is, 
 
 And lightens toil with hope. 
 
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 In the mental darkness men stab and slay: 
 
 Publicity sheds light. 
 The normal direction is ever found 
 
 Thro* seeing fact aright: 
 
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 Thus Democracy's only salvation 
 
 Is still to organize: 
 So shall it pass to the higher plane, 
 
 So, and not otherwise. 
 
 Intelligence is organization, 
 
 For unity of need — 
 So light making in its ultimate trend — 
 
 Will never darken deed. 
 
 Scientific inquiry is the most 
 
 Levelling thing on earth; 
 It punctures pretence and tears away masks 
 
 With democratic mirth. 
 
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 While Invention is building new highways 
 
 For ideas and men, 
 The Social Atheists 'view with alarm ' 7 
 
 The shifting social ken. 
 
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 They denounce the dawning development 
 
 They cannot understand, 
 And believe they ' should ' make of the not-Self 
 
 The Big Drum of the band. 
 
 With minds not narrowed by knowledge, they 
 tilt 
 
 At everything in sight, 
 As tho' the Almighty had botched His job, 
 
 And boggled wrong and right. 
 
 They blame this and that social violence; 
 
 But ever fail to see 
 The healing influence at work thro' all 
 
 That makes for unity. 
 
 They seem as powerless to comprehend 
 
 The freedom of the time 
 As their English brothers in 'Twenty-five 
 
 That called steam-cars 'a crime ' : 
 
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 When the art of Stephenson gave to Life 
 
 The locomotive-fact, 
 There were those that affirmed it would frighten 
 
 The cows along the track ! 
 
 The mere stage-coaches of literature, 
 
 Seen of the primal need, 
 They lacked the unified consciousness 
 
 To trace the thought in deed. 
 
 But while the Social Atheists babble 
 
 (And Babblers always shirk), 
 Self-interest, the duct of Sympathy, 
 
 Does its appointed work. 
 
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 The powerful prepossessions of men 
 
 Prevent their seeing clear, 
 So that the newer governing organs 
 
 Are met with wakeful fear. 
 
2S THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 Instantaneous communication 
 
 Forbids the static dream 
 That the State is a single-centred thing, 
 
 A fixed and * finished ' scheme. 
 
 Democracy is not single-centred 
 As formless minds have taught, 
 
 New centres of regulation arise, 
 By new conditions wrought. 
 
 The new conditions compel new views 
 
 Of government and life, 
 For each classification of Commerce 
 
 Brings order out of strife. 
 
 Effective action turns upon the fact. 
 
 'T is pleasant to be right, 
 In the little thing, as the larger need 
 
 When nations strip for fight. 
 
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 Every normal enterprise upon earth 
 
 Involves the common good, 
 For each is an organ of government 
 
 If rightly understood. 
 
 It is Commerce, and Commerce! all the time, 
 
 And has been thro' the years; 
 The Self and the general good are touched 
 
 With kindred hopes and fears. 8 
 
 The elective Washington government 
 
 Types the old English king, 
 In its harassing Trust legislation 
 
 To which the law courts cling. 
 
 Men see the State as a separate fact 
 
 (As King John thought he saw !), 
 And the ' public ' and ' private ' are set apart 
 
 In politics and law. 
 
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 The false separation between the two 
 
 Must pass from ordered Life 
 To the end that free action may follow, 
 
 With less unsocial strife. 
 
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 The American Runnymede is on 
 
 In law courts of the land 
 Where the old and jealous elective king 
 
 Is juggling for command. 
 
 It is there the battle is being fought, 
 
 For there the verdicts wait 
 To clear the new organs of government 
 
 That clutch the keys of State. 
 
 The play of the governing principle 
 
 Compels the larger view; 
 But the recognition must come thro' the courts 
 
 To rule the action true, 
 
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 As the court was the first legislature, 
 
 So it will be the last, 
 Unless the new State is to plagiarize 
 
 The folly of the past. 
 
 When Warwick, the king-maker, failed to note 
 
 The old conditions fade, 
 He went down in the crush of the newer thought, 
 
 And was himself unmade. 
 
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 The tangle of statute must yield to Law. 
 
 Self-government is near, 
 For the play of the Self protects the whole — 
 
 When the parts are in gear. 
 
 The decaying juridic ideas 
 
 That block industrial change 
 Will be brushed aside by the newer need 
 
 Till Trade has room to range. 
 
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 The Law is no longer a static thing 
 
 Pent in a narrow groove, 
 And shackled to timorous precedent 
 
 Without the grit to move : 
 
 'T is the marching, moulding intelligence 
 
 That strikes offenders down ; 
 'T is the bodyguard of integrity 
 
 That justice waits to crown : 
 
 It moves in the changeful movement of Life, 
 
 With freed conditions fraught ; 
 Still questing for the inviolate fact — 
 
 The arbiter of thought. 
 
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 As progress is from private to public, 
 
 The semi-public stage 
 Is the interregnum that troubles men 
 
 Ere Science sets the gauge. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 33 
 
 The recognized organs of government 
 
 Reveal the Self in deed ; 
 The post-office, army, and court of law, 
 
 Mark the collective need ; 
 
 But the unrecognized organs, also, 
 
 Are government in kind, 
 Tho' denied of the Social Atheist 
 
 That lacks the moving mind. 
 
 At one time the coining of money 
 Was wrought by private hand, 
 
 Ere the increasing communication 
 Gave the new State command. 
 
 The telephone and the telegraph lines 
 
 Will come in time to be 
 
 But extensions of the post-office Trust, 
 
 When functioned full and free: 
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34 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 The Communication system must reach 
 
 To unity at last, 
 For the separate and the sundered thing 
 
 Is of the storied past. 
 
 XXVI 
 
 The compelling commercial unities 
 
 Loom large on every hand 
 As incoming organs of government 
 
 To regulate the land. 
 
 They are all a part of society 
 
 And to be treated so, 
 Or the war cry of a false socialism 
 
 Will work the nation's woe. 
 
 The Trust is in line with the verities, 
 
 And verities succeed, 
 While the bankrupt trader of retail-mind 
 
 Laments the larger need. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 35 
 
 Any Trust not based on a social want 
 
 Will meet its factless fate 
 In the march of the keen competition 
 
 That builds the better State. 
 
 In current trade wars of supremacy 
 
 That focus public gaze, 
 The public forgets that in every war 
 
 The lonesome loser pays. 
 
 The limit of commercial government 
 
 Is that which limits all — 
 The need of being infallibly right 
 
 When stern Occasions call. 
 
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 In the fading English statute-books 
 
 The Act may still be found 
 That forbade the forming of partnerships 
 
 On any English ground ; 
 
36 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 It was said that they boded woeful harm 
 
 To individual need! 
 And that is the one continuing thought 
 
 Of the false-social creed. 
 
 The great English industrial barons — 
 The Trust men of their day — 
 
 Grew tired of the old king's exactions, 
 And drew the sword to slay : 
 
 Then spurious authority vanished 
 
 Before the show of fact, 
 And the Strong Men and their associates 
 
 Wrested the right to act. 
 
 That is armoured Democracy's lesson 
 When read between the lines; 
 
 With a freer commercial suggestion 
 Than history assigns. 
 
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 It is the eld denial of freedom 
 
 To individual rights, 
 That spurs the militant, triumphing Self 
 
 To proud, heroic fights. 
 
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 The new Title Guarantee companies 
 
 Reveal the restful rise 
 Of the competent governing organs 
 
 That men of insight prize. 
 
 The old, blundering register of deeds 
 
 Could only be displaced 
 By inventing a scientific tool, 
 
 With surer system graced. 
 
 The Guarantee people bet on their facts, 
 And back their point of view; 
 
 As infallible Science guards the game 
 To keep the action true. 
 
38 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
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 The Bank is an organ of government 
 
 That moves the ordered way, 
 For its clearing-house legislature meets 
 
 And functions, day and day. 
 
 There the private and public good are seen 
 
 Serenely unified, 9 
 In a legislature where all 'bad ' bills 
 
 Are lightly tossed aside. 
 
 The publicity is so absolute 
 
 That rim with centre vies; 
 Intelligence identifies as law, 
 
 And lies are stamped as lies. 
 
 The new clearing-house form of government 
 
 Can't be divorced from right, 
 For the pretty reason that fact and act 
 
 Are parallel in sight. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 39 
 
 The main-governing centre of money 
 
 Is where the news is known ; 
 And as country banks report to New York, 
 
 It rules the fiscal throne. 
 
 xxx 
 The system of credit clearing-houses 
 
 Now clears the credit fact 
 By reporting thro' all its centres 
 
 A buyer's last known act. 
 
 When the trading firms of a given line 
 
 Clear all their credit news, 
 The totalling of the collated facts 
 
 Clinches the credit clues. 
 
 The old mercantile agency gossips 
 
 Traded in talk and guess. 
 The clearing-house system trades in the fact, 
 
 And stops at fact, no less. 
 
40 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 It is not what the buyer says or thinks; 
 
 But what he does that breeds. 
 The ledger tosses opinion aside, 
 
 And tells of moving deeds. 
 
 A * rating ' is old in forty-eight hours, 
 
 And pointless in a day, 
 For the newer action compels new thought, 
 
 And thrusts the old away. 
 
 So the out-of-date credit reporting 
 
 Lacked systematic rule 
 In that it merely perverted the fact, 
 
 Without a guiding tool. 
 
 The newspapers mangle intelligence 
 
 As credit news was wrought 
 Ere Science invented the clearing-house, 
 
 And mastered credit thought. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 41 
 
 XXXI 
 
 The Railway Traffic Association 
 
 Is organ of the whole, 
 Tho* the elective king bars its function, 
 
 And fights it for control : 
 
 The result is but railway confusion 
 
 Divorced from guiding will. 
 When the railways legislate for themselves 
 
 They do so with some skill. 
 
 Would fifty or more traffic managers 
 
 Allow a warring one 
 To peril the interest of the class, 
 
 When all was said and done? 
 
 With intelligence properly organized, 
 
 The rapid, railway mind 
 Would pillory the rebel offender 
 
 As outcast of his kind. 
 
42 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 If the new State were not organic, 
 
 A railway could not be 
 Compelled to haul a competitor's car 
 
 That action might be free. 
 
 XXXII 
 
 The labour Trusts are governing organs, 
 
 And will be more and more 
 As their captains, fronting the larger need, 
 
 The larger law explore. 
 
 Some brilliant ability is required 
 
 To mould two million men 
 In a compact and working unity 
 
 With but a single ken. 
 
 That not three in ten of the wage-takers 
 
 Are so far organized ; 
 But proves that concurrent majorities 
 
 Are not to be despised. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 43 
 
 When every wage-taker is in a Trust, 
 
 As science men would like, 
 The current confusion will disappear 
 
 With 'lockouts ' and the ' strike.' 
 
 Then the money chief and the labour chief, 
 
 Unswayed by hate or fear, 
 May bring all of their facts to a centre, 
 
 And rule the action clear. 
 
 XXXIII 
 
 The future of the joint-stock principle 
 
 Is one with that of wage, 
 And both are involved in the settlement 
 
 Of pensions for old age. 
 
 In the oncoming wage arbitrations, 
 
 The labour men may plead 
 The justice point in the dividend rate, 
 
 As well as labour's meed. 
 
44 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 When the wage rate is to be reckoned with, 
 
 So is the dividend ; 
 The governing principle cuts both ways 
 
 For equity to fend. 
 
 If the 'right ' to discharge a wage-taker 
 
 By the wage-paying side 
 Without the consent of a labour Trust, 
 
 Is still to be denied: 
 
 Then the wage-payer has another 'right,' 
 
 And that must clearly be 
 That no wage-taker shall quit his task 
 
 Till those that hire agree. 
 
 The one 'right ' is as fair as the other, 
 
 The two go hand in hand ; 
 And the sooner the factions free the fact, 
 
 The better for the land. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 45 
 
 xxxiv 
 
 The wage-payer that fears the labour Trusts 
 
 Is facing from the sun, 
 For the broader sweep of the principle 
 
 Has only now begun. 
 
 To deny to the men that do the work 
 
 A unity of act, 
 Is to follow the Social Atheist 
 
 That tries to strangle fact. 
 
 The injunction tool in the wage disputes 
 
 That labour captains fear, 
 Is a tool to be forced to the limit 
 
 Till every fact is clear : 
 
 Not part of the facts ; but all of the facts 
 
 That enter in the cause, 
 Till the real relationship rises 
 
 To shape the equal laws. 
 
46 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 While the theorists talk arbitration 
 As tho' 't were something new, 
 
 The law courts are all arbitration courts 
 From any point of view. 
 
 That the labour Trusts will incorporate 
 
 Is simple common sense, 
 The Self-interest dictates the action 
 
 For reasons of defence. 
 
 The child labour in factories will cease 
 
 Because it does not pay ; 
 A style of preachment Morality loves 
 
 And uses, day and day. 
 xxxv 
 The proposal to change the present form 
 
 Of the organic State 
 Thro' the hurried count of noses alone, 
 
 Was sired by social hate. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 47 
 
 The delicate organs of control 
 
 Are never changed that way ; 
 As some Gallic Social Atheists learned 
 
 When reason went astray. 
 
 It is the maddest exaggeration 
 
 That ere afflicted thought, 
 Of the absolute majority myth 
 
 By droning dreamers taught. 
 
 Until intelligence is organized 
 
 Thro' the diurnal pen, 
 The Cheerful Idiot will hoist the flag 
 
 Invented by the men 
 
 That conceive the interest of the whole 
 
 As turning on one fact, 
 And overlook the diversified needs 
 
 Compelling each class act. 
 
48 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 The controlling organs of government 
 
 Are only one in kind; 
 But their complexity of interest 
 
 Has to be borne in mind, 
 xxxvi 
 The sense of a sovran community 
 
 Is taken in two ways : 
 Thro' the risen right of suffrage alone, 
 
 The mere nose-counting phase, 
 
 Or thro' the clear right of the organism, 
 
 That passes in review 
 The manifold interests of the class — ■ 
 
 The antient and the new. 
 
 Each plan collates the majority sense; 
 
 But the concurrent form 
 Votes interest along with the number, 
 
 And seeks the social norm. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 49 
 
 The numerical method cannot mark 
 
 The movement of the class ; 
 And that movement has to be reckoned with 
 
 In movements of the mass. 
 
 XXXVII 
 
 The theorists talk of majorities 
 
 As tho' there were but one 
 (And that the conventional nose-count !) 
 
 In all the grill o' the sun. 
 
 The profound distinction between the two, 
 
 When overlooked or lost, 
 Has foundered many a Ship of State 
 
 And left it tempest-tost. 
 
 The Socialist propaganda, so-called, 
 
 That threats the smiling land, 
 Is largely an anti-social crusade 
 
 To cripple Self-command. 
 
50 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 The work of the unreal reformer 
 
 Rarely outlives its day, 
 For the superstitions that tire each age 
 
 Pass, with the age, away. 
 
 XXXVIII 
 
 The peddling of ballots to every man 
 
 Is not the destined reach 
 That a scientific Democracy 
 
 Has to pursue or teach. 
 
 Democracy is a means, not an end : 
 
 The end is moral right ; 
 And the usurpations of ' government ' 
 
 But bar men from the light. 
 
 The universal suffrage idea 
 Is meeting with some strain 
 
 Thro' the complexity of interest 
 That makes the nose-count vain. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 51 
 
 Already in careful localities 
 
 The ballot is hedged round 
 With proper and pleasing precautions 
 
 To keep the action sound. 
 
 The legislature, as elective king, 
 
 Quite often fails thro' strife 
 To re-present the free play of the Selves 
 
 That called it into life. 
 
 As no legislature can 'make' the law, 
 
 The living facts make all; 
 Tho' unnoted of washed and unwashed mobs 
 
 When politicians bawl. 
 
 An Act of Congress that contravened 
 
 The scientific side, 
 Would be ruled ultra vires by the courts, 
 
 And sovranty denied. 
 
52 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 The political system will meet reform 
 
 When Commerce cares to lead 
 With daily intelligence organized 
 
 Beyond the stomach-need, 
 xxxix 
 The essential truth of the universe, 
 
 No clashing creeds can maim, 
 Is that perfect Idea of Unity 
 
 Christ perished to proclaim. 
 
 'T is the death of the unrelated Self, 
 
 The key of wider mind, 
 That makes for order and perennial peace 
 
 With all of humankind. 
 
 The glad lesson of the Resurrection 
 
 Shows men must die to live; 
 And pass thro' the graves of their old, dead 
 Selves 
 
 To what the new Selves give. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 53 
 
 The unrelated are but bonden slaves : 
 
 Only the bond are free. 
 Life floods with freedom the minds that live 
 
 The Law of Unity. 
 
 One God, and one law, and one rounded whole, 
 
 Compel the sure success 
 That makes the problem of the whirling world 
 
 Perplex poor mortals less. 
 
 XL 
 
 When the bonny Blue Flag went down in blood, 
 
 The fighting men conceived 
 That the final slave was bought at a price, 
 
 And all good things achieved. 
 
 With the vanishing years they have come to see 
 
 Man's slavery as fact, 
 That cannot be ' settled ' by sullen guns, 
 
 Or Proclamation Act. 
 
54 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 Only his chance may be given to man ; 
 
 Whatever freedom comes 
 Must come thro* the play of the wider Self, 
 
 Divorced from flags and drums. 
 
 The thing called Freedom is freedom to act, 
 
 No State can make it more. 
 Nothing for nothing, is Nature's decree — 
 
 The whole of human lore. 
 
 Equality is the right to advance 
 
 Along an ordered line: 
 A privilege that of itself is naught — 
 
 Tho' in the use, divine. 
 
 XLI 
 
 America is grinding its colours : 
 
 Patient, tempered, austere : 
 Unheeding the clamour of surging class, 
 
 Untouched with doubt or fear. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 55 
 
 The style is set, and the studies all made, 
 
 Of witcheries serene, 
 For the stateliest social masterpiece 
 
 This gallant world has seen. 
 
 The clean thought of the marching Republic 
 
 Will never go astray 
 Thro' the chatter of Social Atheists 
 
 That line the Right of Way : 
 
 For the Strong Sons are still in possession, 
 
 As strong men always are ; 
 What the Weaklings deem the portent of doom 
 
 Is but the morning star. 
 
 All that saving Equality stands for, 
 
 All that gives Freedom grace, 
 Must turn, in the end, on the ordered fact — - 
 
 Face unto living face. 
 
56 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 When the full play of Life is reported, 
 
 Democracy will rise 
 To a newer birth and a nobler aim 
 
 Below the Western skies. 
 
 XLII 
 
 The real man of letters is en route, 
 
 To laughing Truth he clings : 
 He has turned from the mummery of words 
 
 To poetry of things. 
 
 The Choice of the Will in the old, good Cause, 
 
 Front-fighter of his kind, 
 He marks, with an insight that ' sees life whole,' 
 
 The chainless march of mind. 
 
 Ah, long was the way, and tragic the halts, 
 
 From out old wrong to right : 
 With glory of manhood and surge of swords 
 
 Till right itself was might: 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 57 
 
 Till the hemlock, the cross, and flame-girt stake, 
 
 Of falsehood foul were past, 
 And essential Truth had come to her own, 
 
 Her healing own, at last. 
 
 The trail of the triumph is dark with blood ; 
 
 But action crowns the whole. 
 The mob and the monarch have lost their power 
 
 To still the seeing soul. 
 
 XLIII 
 
 The fretful chaos in literature 
 
 Need vex no genial thought ; 
 It is not the world but the book-writer 
 
 That has to be re-taught. 
 
 Who fails to pass thro' the books unto Life 
 
 And use them as his tools, 
 Is a slave to the tyranny of words, 
 
 And one of letters' fools : 
 
58 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 When he hopes to fashion a book from books, 
 
 His usefulness is past, 
 For the touch of truth is the touch of life, 
 
 And will be to the last. 
 
 Since the colour-worker in words essayed 
 
 To shape the perfect phrase; 
 But three kinds of books have been given birth 
 
 To cheapen blame or praise. 
 
 The Force book, the Play book, and Reference 
 book — 
 
 The simple three, no more — 
 Compose the reorganized library 
 
 Of sound, artistic lore. 
 
 By the use of the universal key — 
 
 With common sense as tool — 
 Every work is easily classified, 
 
 Despite its claim or school. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 59 
 
 Many books that masqueraded for long 
 
 As leaders of new thought, 
 Have been used to kindle the kitchen fires — 
 
 Unhonoured and unsought. 
 
 While some that were scarcely noticed or read, 
 
 Now with the classics smile, 
 By the side of the masters of Man Talk, 
 
 Whose words are winged with style. 
 
 And others once noted as Play books 
 
 Are seen at last to be 
 The Force books of the Liberation War 
 
 That set the Spirit free. 
 
 Apart from the growing Reference books 
 
 That busy Science breeds, 
 The Force books and Play books are ever few 
 
 That fit the keener needs : 
 
60 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 For nine-tenths of them all are shot-rubbish 
 
 Of unrelated mind — 
 The loud, God-gifted, hand-organ voices 
 
 That charm the colour-blind. 
 
 XLIV 
 
 The newspaper men of the passing hour 
 
 Deny that truth would pay, 
 And, flouting the God of Life as It Is, 
 
 Crucify Christ each day. 
 
 In the food trade or the chemical line, 
 
 Pure quality is thought 
 To insure the larger and lasting sale, 
 
 Thro' Self-interest wrought ; 
 
 But in the news, or intelligence, trade, 
 
 Diurnal dealers claim 
 That adulteration makes for success, 
 
 And aids the dollar game. 
 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 61 
 
 And so they leaven their daily wares 
 
 By colouring the fact, 
 In the quaint belief that to doctor it 
 
 Is proof of business tact. 
 
 In the place of reports are opinions, 10 
 
 And the rude Faction lie 
 Coined in convenient anonymity; 
 
 But wounding low and high. 
 
 XLV 
 
 The journals of the Tar and Feather school 
 Have home-grown rules of right, 
 
 And keep parties of private assassins 
 To murder fames at sight. 
 
 In the narrowing confines of their crawl 
 
 They are as rank a crew 
 As ever assailed a soaring career, 
 
 Or made the false seem true. 
 
62 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 It never occurs to the Sewer guild 
 That he who saves his soul 
 
 May merit a flashing head-line far more 
 Than one that Crimes control : 
 
 The proud picture of virtue triumphant 
 
 Is painted void of charm ; 
 But how they chortle in vulgar glee 
 
 At virtue come to harm ! 
 
 XLVI 
 
 The Obvious has been so exhausted 
 That change itself is stale ; 
 
 And yet no two of the Bludyers agree 
 However brief the tale. 
 
 They handle the free play of politics, 
 O'er which ' reformers ' snore, 
 
 As one would write of a base-ball game 
 That never gave the score. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 63 
 
 And Commerce is seen as a swindling match 
 
 Where only thieves succeed, 
 With a premium on dishonesty 
 
 To crown the cluttered creed. 
 
 And every great captain of industry, 
 
 With genius for command, 
 Is conceived as a social pariah 
 
 That preys upon the land. 
 
 And each ' poor ' man is the victim of 'greed ' : 
 
 And each ' rich ' man ' a foe ' : 
 While the social system is but a ' fraud ' 
 
 Built up of labour's 'woe.' 
 
 Immersed in opinion they fail to note 
 
 The daring of the day 
 That gives to the individual need 
 
 Freedom to serve or sway. 
 
64 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 They affect to fear multiform dangers 
 
 No writer can make plain, 
 And from false premise to wrong conclusion, 
 
 Chorus a sunset strain. 
 
 XLVII 
 
 Yet other journals as freely assert 
 
 That civic griefs are bred 
 Of the * overpaid, opulent ' labour 
 
 That lacks * a guiding-head. ' 
 
 This brand of ' intelligence ' claims to see 
 
 In the wage-paying class, 
 Worn society's only salvation 
 
 From ' the insurgent mass. ' 
 
 As the ' heaven-born rich ' are the angels 
 
 That toil for others' joy, 
 The ' dishonest poor ' are pictured as knaves 
 
 That struggle to destroy : 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 65 
 
 So the 'rich ' are warned to organize 
 Thro' fear of labour's 'greed; ' 
 
 While labour is threatened with penalties 
 For unity of deed. 
 
 Apart from the largest advertisers 
 
 Few courtesies are shown, 
 Since genius is the talent of the dead, 
 
 And simple faith unknown ! 
 
 Each cackling class interest has ' organs ' 
 
 To preach its parish plan ; 
 But the general interest has none 
 
 In all the Wrangling Clan. 
 XLVIII 
 The phrase ' independent journalism ' 
 
 Is only so much bleat 
 
 To mystify with Pecksniffian cant 
 
 The plain man in the street. 
 5 
 
66 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 There was more of quality in the news 
 
 Some fifty years ago 
 Than, with all their prattle of ' progress, ' 
 
 The current journals show. 
 
 The modern newspaper has come to be 
 
 A kind of pedler's pack, 
 With less grip of Life's moving unities 
 
 Than rules the pedler's clack. 
 
 The clean sense of convincing relation 
 
 Is wholly lost to view 
 In the hodge-podge of undigested slop 
 
 Served in the daily stew. 
 
 XLIX 
 The thought of integrity in news 
 
 (The truth entirely freed) 
 Is one with the notion of government — 
 
 The social daily need, 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 67 
 
 Communication parallels Commerce, 
 
 And Commerce, or the State, 
 Never reaches full organization 
 
 Till all the facts are ' straight. ' 
 
 The unreflective action of men 
 
 Is ever in advance 
 Of him whose trade is to put it in words — 
 
 While viewing it askance ! 
 
 To profess that fact cannot be ordered 
 
 Thro' systematic plan, 
 Is an insult to the unified mind 
 
 Of any thinking man : 
 
 In the work of buying and selling it, 
 
 Ignorance is a crime, 11 
 For the basic questions of social peace 
 
 Hinge on fact all the time. 
 
68 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 L 
 
 When the arch-thief Tweed had looted New 
 York 
 
 Of everything in sight, 
 The newspapers bragged of ' exposing ' him 
 
 Thro' turning on the light. 
 
 Under proper news organization 
 
 No Tweed could last an hour, 
 For scientific municipal news 
 
 Would part him from his power. 
 
 'T is easy to write of a broken bridge 
 
 After the bridge is down ; 
 But the task of Science is to foretell 
 
 Its falling to the Town. 
 
 To picture the play of Self-interest 
 
 As unrelated deed, 
 Is to overlook organization 
 
 Thro' unity of need. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 69 
 
 LI 
 
 The machinery of intelligence 
 
 Is everywhere in place ; 
 But the management of the news itself 
 
 Lacks the accordant grace. 
 
 The new wireless message, and telegraph, 
 
 The talking telephone, 
 The web printing-press, and the linotype, 
 
 Are in relation shown ; 
 
 But the ordering of the daily fact 
 
 Has not advanced in kind, 
 For the peddling of Rumour and Gossip 
 
 Is not the work of mind. 
 
 The thought has failed to keep step with the 
 thing, 
 
 And so the task of might 
 Is in charge of the crude Opportunists 
 
 That Science. has to fight. 
 
70 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 The growing ease of communication 
 
 To full and ordered act 
 Permits and compels the intelligence trade 
 
 To level-up with fact. 
 
 i 
 While the pathways of thought unto object 
 
 Are being cleared for men, 
 Shall Science halt at the news-path of Life 
 Where Chaos has her den ? 
 
 LII 
 
 In a trial for murder by poison, 
 
 Chemist, jury, and judge, 
 Type the perfect division of labour, 
 
 From social chief to drudge. 
 
 The Chemist stands for the fact in the case 
 
 The Science, if you will — 
 For he alone can order the fact 
 
 With certainty of skill. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 71 
 
 The intelligence law identifies 
 
 As constituting-fact, 
 And identifies just in proportion 
 
 As mind is free to act. 
 
 Science has to single and systematize, 
 
 And lodge in ordered hands, 
 The universal division of labour 
 
 For which the Chemist stands. 
 
 When the system is seen in relation, 
 
 Thro' unobstructed rule, 
 The full facts may be brought to a centre, 
 
 With intelligence as tool. 
 
 Then the raw, unrelated Reporters 
 
 Will yield to science men 
 That can fashion the fire-new expression — 
 
 Thro' the diurnal pen — 
 
72 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 For the larger and lordlier action 
 
 That lacks the clearing creed 
 Of the imperious regulation 
 
 That fits the social need. 
 
 LIII 
 
 Ye shall know the truth, said the clear-eyed 
 Christ, 
 
 And truth shall make you free. 
 But to free the truth is the daily task 
 
 Of those that think — to see. 
 
 While a constructive force, the mind of man, 
 
 Is moving to its ends, 
 Only organization frees the truth 
 
 To which sound knowledge tends. 
 
 The ordering of Science in common, 
 
 The clearance of the act, 
 Will force the news system to legislate, 
 
 Or register, the fact. 
 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 73 
 
 The electric wire and the telephone 
 
 Provide the easy way 
 To caucus class interests far and near, 
 
 And vote them day and day. 
 
 So the government, which is all Commerce, 
 
 May grip the needs of Life, 
 Till the futile friction 'twixt word and deed 
 
 Has ceased to father strife. 
 
 Then the fact shall be organ of the whole; 
 
 But governed by the rule 
 Of the careful, concurrent majority, 
 
 To check the Common Fool ! 
 
 Which action, again, to be workable, 
 
 And with fair reason chime, 
 Has to turn on the rulings of Science, 
 
 Ordered in space and time. 
 
74 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 No problem is settled beyond debate 
 
 By the nose-count alone; 
 Nor thro' the brute force of the paid police 12 
 
 That either side may own. 
 
 Liv 
 The greatest * sensation ' is that of truth, 
 
 The lie is never bold, 
 For the surface ' sensation ' is timid 
 
 If inner truth is told. 
 
 There are seldom two sides to a question, 
 
 There 's only the inside; 
 As the social surgeons will gently prove 
 
 When fact is opened wide. 
 
 The low-thoughted and rowdy ' sensations ' 
 
 Are trivial and tame 
 In contrast with those that the truth would free 
 
 To fend the higher aim. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 75 
 
 The news captain is certain to appear, 
 
 And when he comes in sight 
 He will drive out the bungler and brawler, 
 
 As day displaces night. 
 LV 
 The commanding thought of integrity 
 
 Is rising clear and true; 
 The mid-stage evolution of Commerce 
 
 Invites the honest view. 
 
 As intelligence is commodity, 
 
 Dealers must understand 
 That it pays to guard with a jealous care 
 
 The honour of the brand : 
 
 Not thro' the force of a moral precept, 
 
 Or fear of future pain ; 
 But because the truth line traces the way 
 
 Unto the larger gain. 
 
76 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 To re-port a thing is to take it back 
 
 To the diviner light, 
 To the play of the governing principle 
 
 That stakes the course aright. 
 
 The Printing-press is the Altar of God : 
 
 Its parish is the world : 
 For the sovran Fact goes its regal way 
 
 By steam and lightning hurled. 
 
 LVI 
 
 Education is contact with ordered life. 
 
 The telephone is tool ; 
 When it kisses the teacher's tactful lips, 
 
 Children will run to school. 
 
 Normal life is to enter the class-room, 
 Touched with its care and play, 
 
 With 'all of the news that is fit to print ' 
 As text-book of the day. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 77 
 
 The Self may be put into relation 
 
 Since Science found the key, 
 So the children wise of the Second Birth 
 
 Need teachers that can see. 
 
 To note what is nearest the naked eye 
 
 Is still the trying task, 
 For behind the appearance is moving mind, 
 
 The face is but the mask. 
 
 As the great globe is nothing but spirit, 
 
 So the spirit in man 
 Holds the healing magic that lights it up 
 
 With unity of plan. 
 
 Not in Nature but in the observer 
 
 Are mystery and worth, 
 For none may see more, or less, than himself 
 
 In all the rounded earth. 
 
78 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 Till a child can give back to its teacher 
 
 A thing in terms of mind, 
 Neither teacher nor pupil has functioned, 
 
 And training is to find. 
 
 The dignity of toil has to be shown 
 
 In its related place, 
 And the eager elective kings appraised 
 
 In service to the race. 
 
 While the Altruists gabble of virtue 
 
 For virtue's sake alone, 
 As tho' a deflection from virtue's path 
 
 Would lead to mammon's throne; 
 
 As fact may be taught in the newer light, 
 True Selfness points the way, 
 
 For an honest action involves reward 
 As sundawn does the day. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 79 
 
 LVII 
 The question of women's ' equality ' 
 
 Turns on their mental ken ; 
 There are royal and radiant spirits 
 
 That dwarf the porcine men : 
 
 And those women are never co-equal 
 
 With men of mindless might; 
 They rank as convincing superiors 
 
 By every rule of sight. 
 
 The much-daring marriage of maid to man 
 
 Is but a social pact; 
 And the law very properly functions 
 
 To advertise the fact : 
 
 So the mutual parties serve notice 
 
 What unity has done, 
 To the end that mim-mouthed Society 
 
 May treat the two as one. 
 
80 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 The sacrament is in the relation, 
 
 Not in the verbal creed ; 
 For if the relationship dies the death, 
 
 They are divorced indeed. 
 
 Remains to publish the truth to the world, 
 
 (As is the social due), 
 Thro* the courts of record the law provides, 
 
 And then — the one makes two. 
 LVIII 
 
 The dream has been of developing Self 
 
 Since man took note of man, 
 And the voice of the Vision has whispered 
 
 In every kosmic plan. 
 
 The moving principle in mortals all 
 
 Has two aspects in mind ; 
 But the play of the narrow and wider Self 
 
 Is only one in kind. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 81 
 
 'T is the story of the Ninety and nine, 
 
 Told of the straying sheep 
 That was wandering out of relation, 
 
 With none to guard or keep : 
 
 The Good Shepherd went thro' the mental night, 
 And down Death's darkling glen, 
 
 To find the Principle that was lost 
 And give it back to men. 
 
 LIX 
 
 So the Self is universal organ 
 
 In ideal and fact, 
 For the God-principle ever functions 
 
 Thro' individual act. 
 
 In the politics of the Altruists 
 
 (Fast falling out of date) 
 
 It is sought to take the mainspring from Life, 
 
 And order from the State : 
 
 6 
 
82 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 They conceive the play of Self-interest 
 
 As counter to the whole ; 
 And in that point of view are not Christians, 
 
 For mind has lost control. 
 
 They ever see two individuals 
 
 In ' vice ' or ' virtue ' clad, 
 In place of the one individual 
 
 That may be ' good ' or ' bad. ' 
 
 The bad and the good are questions of fact, — 
 
 Man's attitude to life; 
 He is ' good ' when in ordered relation, 
 
 And ' bad ' when torn with strife. 
 
 The poor crucified thief of the morning 
 
 Saw things thro' alien eyes, 
 But ere nightfall he found the relation 
 
 That brought him paradise. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 83 
 
 The lack of the governing principle 
 
 Had made the man a clod 
 Till Jesus awakened the wider Self 
 
 That passed, in peace, to God. 
 
 LX 
 
 The long hope of the sanguine ' reformer ' 
 
 To legislate ' bad ' men 
 To the love and practice of virtue 
 
 Thro' a stroke of the pen, 
 
 Traces back to the exaggeration 
 
 Of single-centred rule, 
 That conceived of mortals, viewed in the mass, 
 
 As the Collective Fool. 
 
 Vast numbers of people do not believe 
 
 (As yet, at any rate) 
 In the freedom of the social body 
 
 That constitutes the State : 
 
84 THE LARGER LIFE 
 
 They only believe in the * good '.police, 
 
 And turning-off the light, 
 Or the old-style suppression thro' statute 
 
 Of every sin in sight. 
 
 The tale of legislative oppression 
 
 Needs tracing to its source, 
 To the end that publicity may preclude 
 
 The waste of social force. 
 
 A convincing ground-movement to compel 
 
 Statutory reform, 
 Would give the voters a new idea, 
 
 And take the Towns by storm. 
 
 ( LXI 
 
 Fifty years of excessive repression 
 Of gambling, lust, and 'drink,' 
 
 Have resulted in failure so flagrant 
 As to make State men think. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 85 
 
 The attempt has failed ; but has left behind 
 
 A premium on vice, 
 That the police, corrupted thro' statute, 
 
 Is eager to entice. 
 
 The twist in the policy would corrupt 
 
 The best police on earth, 
 For it violates the Law of the Self 
 
 That rules men from their birth. 
 
 The police is the victim of statutes 
 
 That legislatures pass 
 Thro' the bleat of the Social Atheists — 
 
 The statute-breeding class. 
 
 The ill-advised ' regulations ' are drawn 
 
 To glad a given view, 
 And are left unenforced to soothe the cry 
 
 Of still another crew; 
 
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 But thro' their spasmodic resurrection 
 
 By the ' reforming ' craft, 
 Has come the corrupting development 
 
 Of the policemen's * graft. ' 
 
 LXII 
 
 The antient, eternal duel of Sex 
 
 No statute can suppress, 
 Tho' the legislation of hypocrites 
 
 Aids blackmail more or less. 
 
 Any speculator is a gambler, 
 
 And one that locks the doors 
 Is no ' worse ' than one that juggles with stock 
 
 Upon the open Bourse. 
 
 The problem of ' drink ' will settle itself, 
 
 As every problem must ; 
 The chronic drunkard is shunned by his class, 
 
 And blackballed by the Trust. 
 
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 An Illinois statute that lingers on, 
 
 Makes it a penal crime 
 To hire or harbour a coachman that * drinks,' 
 
 At any place or time! 
 
 As a matter of plain, prosaic fact, 
 
 Drunkards are turned away 
 Because their retention is troublesome, 
 
 And does not please or pay. 
 
 So that is the law which governs the case, 
 
 The sure, restraining guide, 
 That, one with the play of the watchful Self, 
 
 Will never be denied. 
 
 LXIII 
 
 The social body needs freedom to move, 
 
 Tho* painful Prudes may scoff, 
 The statutes but hamper the larger law — 
 
 The old clamps must come off. 
 
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 Unless Lady Nature denies men wit 
 
 To fend their lives from flaw, 
 Their immediate surroundings are ever 
 
 The true restraining law. 
 
 The timid sense of danger called justice 
 May turn the Fool from strife ; 
 
 But this wholesome restraint as to conduct 
 Comes of contact with life. 
 
 Neither men nor women are angels yet, 
 
 Utopia is far, 
 And the call is to shun the impossible, 
 
 And see Things as They Are. 
 
 True morality passes by the point 
 
 Of the prevailing creed, 
 To face, with the logic of all the facts, 
 
 The living social need. 
 
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 The preachers of perfectibility 
 
 For our imperfect race 
 Have a touching faith in its wickedness 
 
 And lack of saving grace. 
 
 Will it never occur to the meddler, 
 
 Warring in idle ways, 
 That most men are ' good, ' as ' reformers ' are, 
 
 Simply because it pays? 
 
 LXIV 
 
 The common notion of brotherly love 
 
 (By dreamers understood) 
 Makes it a condition of Utopia, 
 
 Where every man is * good. ' 
 
 When told that a given mortal is ' good/ 
 
 Science says : Good for what ? 
 As the unrelated, or barren, ' good ' 
 
 Is touched with moral rot : 
 
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 While to speak or write of Utopia 
 
 Betrays the static thought 
 That has no place in a universe 
 
 With ceaseless motion fraught. 
 
 The Do unto others as you would have 
 
 The others do to you, 
 That Altruists quote to clinch their creed, 
 
 And clear their muddled view, 
 
 Is the most Selfish maxim yet uttered 
 
 In all the tides of Time, 
 For Christ is as scientific and sane 
 
 As is the Thought sublime. 
 
 There lurks in it the brave definition 
 
 Of true brotherly love, 
 Whether in the Study, or busy Mart 
 
 Or by the ' stream of Dove ' : 
 
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 It is IDENTITY OF INTEREST 
 
 That lights the ordered ways; 
 Men love each other thro' no maudlin bleat — 
 They love because it pays ! 
 
 With this accepted, the spiritual power 
 
 Reveals itself as fact, 
 And enters into the life of the world 
 
 To shape the kindly act. 
 
 It is the breaking down of convention 
 
 And gay divorce from cant, 
 That sweep to the merciful Silences 
 
 The old, unsocial rant. 
 
 The word ' unselfish ' will fade from the books 
 
 In tales of peace and strife, 
 As it stands for that unthinkable thing — 
 
 ' Disinterest ' in Life. 
 
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 Who denies the unity principle 
 
 That Jesus taught the race, 
 Is crucified by it upon the spot, 
 
 Without a moment's grace. 
 
 That is the Law of the Spirit in Man, 
 
 Of which the Force books tell, 
 For in mind is the highest heaven he knows, 
 
 In mind, his lowest hell. 
 
 LXV 
 
 As all sound Religion is one with life, 
 
 Mind is divining-rod; 
 The age of the Symbol is passing out, 
 
 Men crave the living God : 
 
 No mummery of the Dead Hand decree 
 
 Divorces Him from life. 
 Gone is the lesion of a ' good ' apart, 
 
 That bred unrest and strife. 
 
THE LARGER LIFE 93 
 
 The true Churches are ordered of unity, 
 And one Thought rules the whole. 
 
 The triple confusion has ceased to cloud 
 The answer-searching soul : 
 
 For the law that the honest preachers hold 
 
 That trade in saving grace, 
 Is one with him that tracks the marching Orbs, 
 
 And thinks in time and space. 
 
 Religion is sweeter since men perceived 
 
 The monstrous moral crime 
 Of teaching a fixity in the world 
 
 That 's moving all the time. 
 
 The mind of man is no dual affair 
 
 As Primitives have taught, 
 With an air-tight and cosy compartment 
 
 For theologic ' thought ' : 
 
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 It is open to every fact of Life 
 
 By new conditions timed, 
 For nothing is sacred beneath the sun 
 
 Save integrity of mind. 
 LXVI 
 My God is not of a ghostly Beyond, 
 
 Throned in a golden seat ; 
 Ah ! one is He with the Spirit of Life, 
 
 And nearer than kneeling feet. 
 
 And here, where He is, is heaven to some, 
 
 The happy, placeless state 
 That is born of the clearing consciousness, 
 
 Untouched with chance or fate. 
 
 It is plain to see that each passing day 
 
 Is Judgment Day to all, 
 As the wider Self struggles for freedom, 
 
 And inner Voices call. 
 
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 No asphodel blooms in the gracious land, 
 
 No seraphs haunt the place; 
 But the joy of a Growing Purpose lights 
 
 The glory of its face. 
 
 EPILOGUE 
 
 What is truth ? cried the curious Pilate, 
 
 And would not pause reply. 
 The twentieth wave of the ages waits 
 
 The answer to that cry. 
 
 But the sad and solemn Grave is voiceless, 
 
 And Purple Distance dumb. 
 Trust in God ! the unfaltering answer 
 
 Shall yet of Science come. 
 
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 Without pity or ethic pretension 
 
 She plows up weed and briar, 
 And no corner shall fail of her furrows 
 
 To stead the World's Desire. 
 
 From her measured and slow-moving footsteps 
 
 Grow corn and healing flowers, 
 And to limit her ultimate conquests 
 
 Is not for finite Powers. 
 
NOTES 
 
 Note i, Page 4. 
 
 The unities thro' Commerce are forming. 
 
 * This commerce is a giant clock-work process, compared 
 with which the old sea-traffic is as crude as the Columbus 
 clock to current time-pieces. It is an evolution that gives 
 promise of far greater complexity, of becoming a system of 
 members so delicate that not one invoice can go astray but 
 the loss shall be known and appreciated by the whole organ- 
 ism. Contrast this era with the dying age of sea-traffic : the 
 era of publicity and logic, with the age of secrecy, of mystery 
 and myth, when the loss of a great ship was a vague, far-off 
 calamity, that only years could verify. It is an evolution 
 of childhood into manhood ; of boyish dreams into manly 
 ambitions.' 
 
 Note 2, Page 6. 
 
 A crystal thought is the concept that rose 
 Thrd study of man's frame. 
 
 'The State organization projected by man must necessarily 
 have been patterned, in respect of its mode of working, after 
 that of his own body. The government of the human body 
 
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 is comprised in the sympathetic and cerebro-spinal nervous 
 systems, which operate as a unity in relation to a common end. 
 The cerebro-spinal system identifies as the legislature, or 
 law-finding organ, of the human body, its function being to 
 search out and co-ordinate the particular environment of each 
 individual that clear direction may result, and this whether the 
 problem is to measure time through the science of astron- 
 omy, to invent the steam-engine, or to keep a dinner appoint- 
 ment. The sympathetic nervous organization, with the solar 
 plexus as central office, identifies as the banking system of the 
 human body, its function being to direct and control the 
 nutrition of the body as a physical organism. Having regard 
 to the government, or regulation, of the social body, interest 
 centres in the development of the legislature or parliament, 
 and the bank. The legislature corresponds to the cerebral 
 nervous system in the human body, while the machinery of 
 banking, with the clearing-house as controlling centre, identi- 
 fies as the government of the sympathetic or nutritive sys- 
 tem.' — Franklin Ford. 
 
 Note 3, Page 9. 
 
 Commerce is the moving Spirit of Man. 
 
 The hour has gone by for serious writing on the social 
 question built up of hard and fast distinctions between princi- 
 pal and interest. Some writers profess to see on one side 
 profit-sharing, and on the other what they are pleased to call co- 
 operation. The distinction exists only in the books ; it is not 
 
 
NOTES 99 
 
 a fact of Life. There are not commerce and co-operation. 
 It is all commerce. A given division of labour may be brought 
 to greater co-operation ; but only through making it more 
 commercial. 
 
 Note 4, Page 13. 
 
 The division but marks the relation. 
 
 ' God will deliver the world over to divisions.' — Hebrew 
 Bible. 
 
 Note 5, Page 16. 
 
 // is only division of labour. 
 
 Division of labour in social organization has been recog- 
 nized in a partial way for over a century ; but it is only now 
 that the full sweep of the principle is reaching recognition. 
 The best that Mr Adam Smith could do in his day was to 
 write of the division in a given industry, as in the making of 
 pins. With telephonic conditions, the whole business of gov- 
 ernment classifies under the principle. In this light the 
 social body is disclosed as object; the various functions 
 in the State are one with the organs of commerce. 
 
 Note 6, Page 22. 
 
 Direct rule by the individual 
 Is passing into act. 
 
 ' Up to this day we have allowed to statesmen a paramount 
 social standing. . . . We cannot extend this deference to 
 
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 them any longer. The secret cannot be kept that the seats of 
 power are filled by underlings, ignorant and timid to a degree 
 to destroy all claim, excepting that on compassion, to the so- 
 ciety of the just and the generous. . . . Their vocation is a 
 presumption against them among well-meaning people. 
 The superstition respecting office is going to the ground. 
 The stream of human affairs flows its own way, and is very 
 little affected by the activity of legislators. What great 
 masses of men wish done, will be done ; and they do not wish 
 it for a freak; but because it is their state and natural end. 
 There are now other energies than brute force, other than 
 political, which no man can in future allow himself to disre- 
 gard. There are direct conversation and influence. A man is 
 to make himself felt by his proper force. The tendency of 
 things runs steadily to this point, namely, to put every man on 
 his merits, and to give him so much power as he naturally 
 exerts — no more, no less. Of course, the timid and base 
 persons, all who are conscious of no worth in themselves, and 
 who owe all their place to the opportunities which the old or- 
 der of things allowed them, to deceive and defraud men, shud- 
 der at the change, and would fain silence every honest voice, 
 and lock up every house where liberty and innovation can be 
 pleaded for. They would raise mobs, for fear is very cruel. 
 But the strong and healthy yeomen and husbands of the land, 
 the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear 
 no competition or superiority. Come what will, their faculty 
 cannot be spared.' — Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
NOTES ioi 
 
 Note 7, Page 25. 
 
 77ie Social Atheists ' view with alarm. 1 
 
 There be that have mussed over the traditional notion of 
 representative government to an extent that neutralizes their 
 natural wit. With them, one must ' go to the legislature ' to be 
 a representative. Failing to distinguish the individual as 
 organ of the God-principle, their cult amounts to social athe- 
 ism. In the complex movement of Life each person is, in 
 aspect, day and day a representative, as a common principle 
 runs through all, that of the mind itself. Having no univer- 
 sal by which to order their facts, the Social Atheists, or Self- 
 styled Socialists, are unable to see Democracy in movement, 
 ever advancing to more effective organization. It is not for 
 them to observe the wondrous pageantry of action, to note the 
 point gained and from that to mark the future. In place of 
 this they have a vague sentimentalism. They like to write of 
 'the people,' the prepossession being that things are done 
 in some way other than through the individual. 
 
 Note 8, Page 29. 
 
 The Self and the general good are touched 
 With kindred hopes and fears. 
 
 1 No one can be perfectly free till all are free ; no one can 
 be perfectly moral till all are moral ; no one can be perfectly 
 happy till all are happy.' — Herbert Spencer. 
 
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 Note 9, Page 38. 
 
 There the private and public good are seen 
 Serenely unified. 
 
 1 Writers on the philosophy of politics use the word indi- 
 vidualistic, and speak of the individualistic point of view. The 
 opposite is the organic point of view, though the book-people 
 have not progressed so far, since the phrasing social organ- 
 ism, or social body, is to them only a metaphor. They are 
 still asking whether there is a social body. The plane of fact 
 is beyond them. The idea of an organic, inter-related, bank- 
 ing or credit system flies in the face of the merely individual 
 experience. Thus, for an individual to lend five dollars to 
 a friend, which is to certify the friend's credit to that extent, 
 the certifier must have saved that much money. This pre- 
 sents the so-called individualistic point of view. But the 
 incoming universal banking, whose centres of registry and 
 certification (credit offices) are everywhere, does not need 
 to save money at all in order to lend or give credit ; it is centre 
 of authority in the money system and, therefore, makes its 
 own instrument ( = money) for transferring credit through the 
 universalized ( = legalized) check book in the moment of the 
 transaction. The Bank appears as a universal organ in 
 the State, or system of organs. Thus we realize the two 
 points of view.' — Franklin Ford. 
 
NOTES 103 
 
 Note io, Page 6i. 
 
 In the place of reports are opinions. 
 
 The touching feature of current journalism is that the news- 
 paper men ' edit ' the news-columns, colouring the daily fact 
 to chime with the particular class interest which they are 
 paid to re-present. They are not content to air opinion in 
 the editorial page alone. 
 
 Note ii, Page 67. 
 
 In the work of buying and selling it, 
 Ignorance is a crime. 
 
 Sanguine ignorance, which, in matters of morals, exten- 
 uates the crime, is itself, in matters of literature, a crime of 
 the first order. The failure to detect the necessity of a new 
 co-ordination, is proof of imposture in the news, or mov- 
 ing intelligence, trade. 
 
 Note 12, Page 74. 
 
 No problem is settled beyond debate 
 
 By the nose-count alone ; 
 
 Nor thro' the brute force of the paid police . 
 
 ' Government began, the social relation came to view, with 
 the appearance of one who was surer and quicker than his 
 
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 fellows in determining fact, in finding out the way or law 
 The strong man in the first instance was the direction-finder, 
 the element of physical force being always secondary. 
 At no time could might be entirely separated from right. An 
 instrument of government must at the same time be an organ 
 of intelligence. The soldier or policeman is incidental to 
 any scheme of government; he is an attendant upon the 
 court of arbitration. The knocker-out in a hotel is an im- 
 portant personage, relative to the hotel, but he does not 
 direct the business.' — Franklin Ford. 
 
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