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Swartbmore Xecture.

There is another great ally for the work ofsocial reconstruction, a guide who is and will bealive even for our children and grand-children :Goethe who built a vault over Kant and Hegel.

In countless passages Goethe confesses thatman as a member of a community, working alongthe lines of his calling, gains a higher freedom thanthe unfettered individualist. " Make of yourselfan organ, and watch what place mankind willkindly grant to you in the common life." " Thebest man, in doing one thing, does all." Every-body ought to understand one thing and do itaccording to his vocation—Goethe said, hisvocation was " to write German "—but at thesame time nothing that is human ought to beindifferent to him. He ought to be a one-sidedworker and at the same time an all-round man.Goethe confessed himself in favour of the sub-ordination of private property to the social needs." Man should hold fast to every kind of possession ;but he should make himself the centre from whichthe common weal can radiate." " Here ornowhere is Herrenhut "—i.e. the place of loveactive in deeds, which widens from " home piety "to " world piety." Goethe likens history to aFugue composed by a great master in which thevoices of the separate nations one after the othercome to expression and confesses his allegianceto the cause of mankind : " In each particularbeing we shall see more and more, throughpersonality and nationality, the common humanityshining through." At the same time Goethe confessed and practised the joyous activism of