ABSTRACT
This chapter establishes the two principles, namely: one furnishes a test of the quality or worth of the aim of any social policy; the other a test of the safety of its methods. The aim is entirely worthy only when the policy of reform is consciously directed towards such alteration of social conditions as will make of social life and its relationships a better training ground for the development of selves as the servants and instruments of the true individual. The chapter argues that the worth of a reformer's aim may be tested by the application of a spiritual principle which is always decisive and harmonizes with the conception of the social process as a means to a supreme spiritual end. Thus, the real reformer's work is always a religious work, though seldom recognized as such by others or even by himself.
