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 114 PSYCHOLOGY AND PREACHING

To do so he must, to be sure, have a clear intellectual grasp of social facts and principles ; for without this he may be a most effective hindrance to social progress by organizing the emotional life of the people around false or imperfect con ceptions of social relations. But having acquired true ideas of social processes and relations, let him devote himself to developing right emotional dispositions in connection with them, being assured that there is no other work in the whole great process of social advancement so much needed. For apart from proper emotional dispositions, the clearest and most comprehensive ideas and principles are without power to control the actions of men.

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