s' claimed by different political thinkers might be made. The
famous 'Declaration of Rights'[14] included Life, Liberty, Property,
Security, and 'Resistance of Oppression.' To these some have added
'Manhood Suffrage,' 'Free Access to the Soil,' and a common
distribution of the benefits of life and means of production. This is
a large programme, and certainly no community as yet has recognised all
its items without qualification. Obviously they are not all of the
same quality, nor are they of independent validity; and at best they
but roughly describe certain factors, considered by various agitators
as desirable, of an ideal social order.

(3) We are on safer ground, and for Christian Ethics, at least, more in
consonance with ultimate Christian values, when we describe the primary
realities of human nature in terms of the revelation of life as given
by the Person and teaching of Jesus Christ. The three great verities
upon which He constantly insisted were, man's value for himself, his
value for his fellow-men, and his value for God. These correspond
generally to the three great ethical ideas of life--Personality,
Freedom, and Divine Kinship. But although the sense of independence,
liberty and divine fellowship is the first aspect of a being who has
come to the consciousness of himself, it is incomplete in itself. Man
plants himself upon his individuality in order that he may set out from
thence to take possession, by means of knowledge, action, and service,
of his larger world. Man's rights are but {206} possibilities which
must be transmuted by him into achievements.

'This is the honour,--that no thing I know,
Feel, or conceive, but I can make my own
Somehow, by use of hand or head or heart.'[15]

Rights involve obligations. The right of personality carries with it
the duty of treating life, one's own and that of others, as sacred.
The right of freedom implies the use of one's liberty for the good of
the society of which each is a member. And finally, the sense of
divine kinship involves the obligation of making the most of one's
life, of realising through and for God all that God intends in the gift
of life.

In these three values lies the Christian doctrine of man.[16] Because
of their fullness of implication they open out to our vision the goal
of humanity--the principle and purpose of the whole process of human
evolution--the perfection of man. Given these three Christian
truths--the Sacredn