In all things it is best for a people to obey the law of their own
being. The lion can never become the ox, and "one law for the lion and
the ox is oppression."
Now that the hammer of Thor is wrecking our civilizations, is destroying
the body of European nationalities, the spirit is freer to reshape the
world nearer to the heart's desire. Necessity will drive us along with
the rest to recast our social order and to fix our ideals. Necessity
and our own hearts should lead us to a brotherhood in industry. It
should be horrible to us the thought of the greedy profiteer, the
pursuit of wealth for oneself rather than the union of forces for the
good of all and the creation of a brotherly society. The efforts of
individuals to amass for themselves great personal wealth should be
regarded as ignoble by society, and as contrary to the national spirit,
as it is indeed contrary to all divine teaching. Our ideal should be
economic harmony and intellectual diversity. We should regard as alien
to the national spirit all who would make us think in flocks, and
discipline us to an unintellectual commonalty of belief.
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