ation in the smaller groups on which his life service and life
sustenance depend. The multiplication of functions leads to increased
division of service and to increased co-operation. In the industrial
life the division of labor and formation of special groups are more
clearly manifested.

_Great Society and the Social Order_.--This is manifested chiefly in
the modern state and the powerful expression of public opinion. No
matter how traditional, autocratic, and arbitrary the centralized
government becomes, there is continually arising modifying power from
local conditions. There are things that the czar or the king does not
do if he wishes to continue in permanent authority. From the masses of
the {446} people there arises opposition to arbitrary power, through
expressed discontent, public opinion, or revolution. The whole social
field of Europe has been a seething turmoil of action and reaction, of
autocracy and the demand for human rights. Thirst for national
aggrandizement and power and the lust of the privileged classes have
been modified by the distressing cry of the suffering people. What a
slow process is social evolution and what a long struggle has been
waged for human rights!

_Great Society Protects Voluntary Organizations_.--Freedom of assembly,
debate, and organization is one of the important traits of social
organization. With the ideal of democracy comes also freedom of speech
and the press. Voluntary organizations for the good of the members or
for a distinctive agency for general good may be made and receive
protection in society at large through law, the courts, and public
opinion; but the right to organize does not carry with it the right to
destroy, and all such organizations must conform to the general good as
expressed in the laws of the land. Sometimes organizations interested
in their own institutions have been detrimental to the general good.
Even though they have law and public opinion with them, in their zeal
for propaganda they have overstepped the rules of progress. But such
conditions cannot last; progress will cause them to change their
attitude or they meet a social death.

_The Widening Service of the Church_.--The importance of the religious
life in the progress of humanity is acknowledged by all careful
scholars. Sometimes, it is true, this religious belief has been
detrimental to the highest interests of social welfare. Religion
itself is necessarily conservative, an