The New Christianity; or, The Religion of the New Age

evelopment of democracy. Perhaps in no other way can one so accurately discuss and estimate the progress achie

e clergy, not, indeed, through any such design on the part of the clergy, but through the ignorance of the Northern races which had overrun Southern Europe and almost extinguished

estruction some of the precious flotsam and jetsam of that Greco-Roman literature which had for the most part been submerg

ressible impulses of the human soul for knowledge asserted themselves. The youth of Europe, eager to kno

for the right of the individual to find his own religion and dispense with ecclesiastical guides and directors, Northern Europe established the principle of democracy in religion in the great revolt known as the Protestant Reform

ution of political democracy is the distinctive glory of England. It is her contribution to world civilizatio

and the spiritual lords, later of the knights of the shire, and finally of the burghers of the towns--separate assemblies which soon coalesced and by their unification formed the English Parliament. English constitutional history from the reign of Henry III. to the Revolution of 1688 is the history of the gradual supersession o

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the House of Peers. A still more striking illustration of how the last may be first may yet be yielded by that great half-European, half-Asiatic people, so long, apparently, impenetrable to democracy, but now in the obscure throes of a revolution which despite its initial disorders and excesses, may, it is perhaps pos

ed to a great river a mile in width and a hundred feet in depth, does not need to actually follow the river to its mouth to be assured

kindly spirit in the employer, improved hygienic conditions, rest rooms, better pay and shorter hours, will not secure equilibrium, though the spirit of good-will they tend to evoke may make further struggle less bitter. Prof

rnment and three great unions, representing nearly 1,500,000 workers, the re

mbership 400,000; and the National Transport Workers' Federation, membership 250,000. The unions are acting to

managements and workers. This latter clause is considered a step toward nationalization, but an a

on, said that it was almost as menacing and dangerous as the war itself. He said that the principal Lab

All sections of the people should understand that we have reached the stage when we have laid the cards upon the table

nd this is not the end but the beginning. The end, at least of this phase of industrial evolution, would appear to promise to be the disappearance of the capitalistic control of industry. So far as industries are not owned and managed by the community, they will be owned and managed by the workers that carry them on. The revolution will be accomplished when the men of inventive and organizing and directive ability recognize that their place is with the workers and not with the owners. Cap

listic industry must follow feudalistic land holding. Feudalistic landlordism went because the feudal lords were enormously overpaid in proportion to their services. When organizing and

ging ability is not abundant. What might be called the wages of capital have been unjustly high and are destined to fall un

entitled to a fair return on their investment, but the fashion of this capitalistic age passeth

capital must grow less and less to the vanishing point. The bitter conflict between capital and labor over the division of the profits will never be settled

glorious of all non-Christian democracies and, in some respects, most glorious as yet of all democracies non-Christian and Christian, the democracy of Athens, rested on a slave basis and excluded the man not possessing Athenian citizenship. But it was at least a noble anticipation, a sublime, if inconsistent, partial, and evanescent reaching-out after the democracy which Christianity can never be co