But the principle has to be carrie ed into the smaller and subtler ways of Society. What is true on the high stage of politics is true of life in the towns and villages of Christendom and in such a Settlement as this. The Labour World is presenting much the same problem as Ireland. There are two alternative—standpoints making themselves felt, und the future turns on which of them prevails. On the one hard you have the determination of Labour to have done with the present scheme of things. At a big Conference in London the other day, one of the chief prophets of the Labour Movement declared that they wanted an entire reversal of the standard of ethics at present taught in the schools. 'Punctuality, regularity. thoroughness, industry and discipline" are to be thrown' over as the virtues of a slave-state, a capitalise tic system, and rebel virtues are io be inculcated instead. Now what is the alternative, and how are you going to counteract this ial philosophy with its rebel virtues? It is of no use indulging in force or in rhetoric. You have to get down to a principle that goes decrier than the policy' of rebellion It is the doctrine of responsibility. jthe truth that people who are in possession are responsible for the privations, the vices, the wrongs of the weak and needy, and to act: npon that truth. Increasing numbers over all the world are march-sine under the banner of TLabour rebellion, and there is only one ibanner that gives a prospect of victory over it, and that is the banner of Social Responsibility.
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