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looking to this conference for light will be highly displeased with what I have said, and will be ready to impute a total and final conclusion entirely foreign to the spirit of my argument. They will say : " He means, then, that we should never agitate at all, and indeed never try to do anything. Let things go. Every man for himself. Don't try to make any improvement." I will not say that I do not care for the criticisms of men who will draw this inference. I do care for it. They are the very men whom I have had in mind in preparing this paper. I wish I could persuade them that I want to do more and better than they can ever accomplish by any programme which does not pay due regard to the principles here set forth.

My own conclusion is that, because there is so much to be done, no prudent man will jeopardize any part of it, even tem- porarily, by tolerating a false method. "If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." Wise and sane sympa- thizers with the social movement may and will share, at a thou- sand points, in promoting splendid social progress.

Albion W. Small. The University of Chicago.