ABSTRACT
A socializing system of labor constitutes an infallible and indispensable means of social education. Faith is the primary virtue demanded by the social education of a democracy — the virtue which will prove to be salutary — in case human nature is capable of salvation. The courting of a woman by a man might mix high comedy with a liberal education — if only sexual attraction were made the excuse for candid, mutual curiosity rather than reciprocal illusion. The morality of repression and restraint occupies a radically different practical standing in a genuine democracy from that which it has occupied under the various class political systems. Democracy has been made possible as a consequence of the accumulating surplus of human welfare, which has been created by the increasingly fruitful control of man over nature. Progressive democracy lives upon the conviction that the challenge will be accepted.
