welcomed the strikes, fought them through and gained what selfish
advantage was possible. The point is, there has been vast increase in
the consciousness of moral responsibility on the part of corporations
toward their artisans. This has been due partly to legislation, but
mainly to education and the awakening of public conscience. If you wish
to find the greatest arrogance and selfishness now, you will discover
it, not among the capitalists: they are timid and submissive--strangely
so. You will find it rather in certain leaders of the labor movement,
with their consciousness of newly-gained powers.

Some growth there has been in the application of the same moral
principles even to the relations of the nations. For instance: a
hundred years ago the Napoleonic wars had just come to an end. In the
days of Napoleon men generally gloried in war; to-day most of them
bitterly regret it, and fight because they believe they are fighting for
high moral aims or for national self-preservation, whether they are
right or wrong.

When Napoleon conquered a country, often he pushed the weakling king off
the throne, and replaced him with a member of his own family--at times a
worse weakling. Think of such a thing being attempted to-day: it is
unimaginable, unless the worst tyranny on earth got the upper hand for
the next three hundred years of human history.

A more pungent illustration of progress is the feverish desire, shown by
each of the combatants in this world struggle, to prove that he did not
begin it. Now some one began it. A hundred years ago belligerents would
not have been so anxious to prove their innocence: then victory closed
all accounts and no one went behind the returns. The feverish anxiety
each combatant has shown to establish his innocence of initiating this