ABSTRACT
Yes, I had thought about it in a desul tory and unproductive fashion.
“ Well, go on thinking about it and you will find conclusions ahead of you some where, if I am not mistaken."
I did go on thinking about it, and he was not mistaken, but the first conclusions I ar rived at (by the pleasant Hibernian proc ess) were questions. Which is cause and which effect ? Is it public service for pub lic service’s sake or for publicity’s sake ? Is it not possible with leisure and the con sciousness of money-power to develop a kind of epicureanism in reforms as in the other pleasures of life ? Are we in danger of making a fad of what must be really a very solemn undertaking, when one con siders that a reform is necessarily a read justment of creation, and that if it comes to anything more than an experiment in reform, it must be about as serious a mat ter as creation itself ? I have not yet an swered any of these questions satisfactorily
to myself. Can anybody give me a ray of light ?
