prospects of a time when the individual will be given what he needs in order to live, but also to maintain the principle that man does not live for material enjoy¬ ment alone. This will find expression in a wise grading of earnings such as shall make it possible for every honest worker to be certain of living an orderly, honour¬ able life as a man and a citizen.
Let it not be said that this is an imaginary ideal.
which this world could not stand in practice and could never actually attain.
Even we are not so simple as to imagine that a faultless age can be successfully brought into being. But this does not release us from the obligation to combat the faults which are known of, abolish weak¬ nesses and strive for the ideal. Bitter realization will of itself produce only too many limitations. For that very reason men must try to serve the final aim. Failures must not turn them away from their objective, just as the law cannot be spurned merely because mistakes creep into it, nor can medicine be despised because there will always be illnesses. Men should be careful not to have too low an estimate of the strength of an ideal.