Rather must he continue to form and ennoble himself as a man, but this can only be possible within the frame of the culture which he shares and which must always have its foundation in some State.
But the present day is working its own ruin ; it introduces universal suffrage, chatters about equal rights and can give no reason for so thinking. In its eyes material rewards are the expression of a man’s worth, thus shattering the basis for the noblest equality that could possibly exist. For equality does never, and can never, rest on a man’s achievements by themselves, but it is possible, granted that every man fulfils his own special obligations. This, and this only, can set aside the chances of nature when a man’s worth is judged, and each man forges his own significance.
It may be that gold has become the one dominant power in the life of to-day ; yet a time will come when men shall bow before higher gods. There is much to-day which owes its existence to the desire for money and property, but little is included in it the non-existence of which would leave mankind the poorer.
It is one of the tasks of our Movement to hold out