ABSTRACT
For any moralist one attribute of a good society must be that it is able to produce good men. Good societies will vary widely, but all should offer social and economic conditions which ensure health, humane, efficient and honest administration and a widespread respect for art and learning. Lenin seems to have believed that an ideal society would need a minimum of restrictive government. But few will deny that he was right when he decided that the population of Russia would need a generation of training and education before they could be entrusted with democratic institutions. Wealth in the hands of the good is a blessing, and a good society should have enough of it to ensure a tolerable life for all its members. Strength and stability are different matters. Nearly everyone desires them for his own group. But great strength has often been an overwhelming temptation, and stability should not be so complete that it passes over into stagnation.
