ABSTRACT
The demand on the part of the wage-earners of the modern world for a recognition of the Right to Rise, though it includes by implication a demand for the Right to Work, includes a demand also which is in the latter absent. The idea of the Right to Work is, as Louis Blanc said, merely a concrete rendering of the idea of the right to live. The distinctive assumption implied in the idea of the Right to Rise is the additional assumption, made in accordance with obvious fact, that some men possess faculties superior to those of others. The most widely spread and spontaneous of all the definite demands which have been made by the spirit of democracy in the progressive countries of the world—that is to say, the demand for equalised opportunity, or otherwise for the right to rise—has been analysed.
