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Rh desires, is what I have called the worship of might. But with this Magna Charta of Loyalty, the responsible ministers and Statesmen in a country will feel themselves responsible not to the mob, not to the crowd of plain men and women, but to their King and their Conscience and this will protect them from the temptation to go against what is right to get the praise of the people,-— [sic]in fact protect them from mob worship. The Magna Charta of Loyalty again will make the rulers of a country feel the awful responsibility which the great power given them by Magna Charta of Loyalty imposes upon them and this will protect them from the temptation to trample upon the wishes of the people to follow their own desires,—in fact protect them from the worship of might. Thus we see this Magna Charta of Loyalty,—this Religion of good citizenship with its Magna Charta of Loyalty, will help to put down the worship of the mob and the worship of might, which, as I have shown, are the cause of this war.

The French Joubert who had lived through the French Revolution in answer to the modern cry for liberty said: "Let your cry be for free souls rather than for free men. Moral liberty is the one vitally important liberty, the liberty which is indispensibleindispensable [sic]; the other liberityliberty [sic] is good and salutary only so far as it favours this. Subordination is in itself a better thing than independanceindependence [sic]. The one implies order and arrangement; the other implies only self sufficiency with isolation. The one means harmony, the other, a