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208 John Galsworthy
they ever? Prophecy is not the vocation of the
dramatist, yet the moral lesson is evident. One
cannot help realizing that the workingmen will
have to use methods hitherto unfamiliar to them;
that they will have to discard the elements in their
midst that are forever seeking to reconcile the ir
reconcilable Capital and Labor. They will
have to learn that men like David Roberts are the
very forces that have revolutionized the world and
thus paved the way for emancipation out of the
clutches of the
"
white-faced monster with bloody
lips,"
toward a brighter horizon, a freer life, and a
truer recognition of human values.
JUSTICE
No subject of equal social import has received
such thoughtful consideration in recent years as
the question of Crime and Punishment. A num
ber of books by able writers, both in Europe and
this country preeminently among them
"
Prison
Memoirs of an Anarchist," by Alexander Berk-
man discuss this topic from the historic, psycho
logic, and social standpoint, the consensus of opin
ion being that present penal institutions and our
methods of coping with crime have in every re
spect proved inadequate as well as wasteful.
This new attitude toward one of the gravest so-
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