XXIV CONCLUSION

IN conclusion permit me to say that some of my Readers will perhaps regard these carefully deduced Conclusions with fear and trembling. But as the History of the Past clearly shows, this opposition to Progress is nothing new or strange. Every page of History is replete with indisputable facts that the timid, superstitious Standpatters and Force Advocates have always feared and opposed advanced methods of Thinking, Living and Working.

Their alarm and opposition have, however, seldom if ever been due to any serious defects of the proposed progressive methods, but 117rather to their own comparatively undeveloped Minds; primarily to their inability to make comprehensive generalizations in the matter of human conduct.

Liberty, Equality of Opportunity, Friendly Mutuality and Sound Naturalism have apparently always appeared dangerous and gruesome to this timid and unprogressive class of Humanity. They are not purposely bent on doing wrong; they merely lack in modern intellectual light, and for this reason have they invariably been willing to sacrifice Truth and arrest Progress in order to preserve the ancient and the antiquated rather than join the ranks of Progress.

But despite all designed opposition, will the march of Progress continue with increasing rapidity, and the writer is only too willing to leave the Truth or Error of these carefully deduced Conclusions to the best judgment of the Coming Generations.

(Can the Reader think of any good thing which this ideal civilization does not have in it, or of any of the present bad things which is not eliminated therefrom? If so, will the Reader kindly report the same to the author, 2219 Larimore Avenue, Omaha, Nebraska, for it is the author’s earnest desire to get all the possible good and remove all the bad.)