ABSTRACT
The dead, then, armed with the lever of tradition, are the first contingent to support the ethical elements. It is a political commonplace that only an enlightened people can govern themselves; but it is equally true that only an intelligent people can themselves maintain the ethical elements that lie at the base of the social order. The ethical elements will then be brought into line with healthy ethical sentiment and with the common welfare. In the department of religious control, for instance, the most perfect identity of God's requirements with conscience and reason is found in those democratic sects where the yoke borne by the faithful is mainly of their own making. In the Reformed churches there has been an unmistakable tendency to drop requirements that have no human or social meaning.
