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 demand. Mr. Chesterton spoke but the truth when he said that Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and not tried.

Cecil's conclusions anent the unconcern of the Gospels with forms of government were, strangely enough, the points very ardently disputed by Bible-reading England. A critic in the "Contemporary Review" made the interesting statement that the political economy of the New Testament is radical and sound. He illustrated his argument with the parable of the labourers in the vineyard, pointing out that the master paid the men for the hours in which they had had no work. "In the higher economics," he said, "the State, as representing the community, is responsible for those who, through the State's malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance, are unable to obtain the work for which they wait." 79