Devotedly yours,

OLIVIER ELZEAR MATHIEU,

_Archbishop of Regina._


ARCHBISHOP'S HOUSE,

REGINA, November 21st, 1920.




INTRODUCTION

Praesentia tangens. . . . .
Futura prospiciens.

Problems characterize every age, sum up the complex life of nations and
give them their distinctive features. They form that moral atmosphere
which makes one period of history responsible and tributary to another.
And indeed, in every human problem there is an ethical element. This
imponderable factor, which often baffles our calculations, always
remains the true, permanent driving force. For in the last analysis of
human things, morality is what reachest furthest and matters most.

Problems may vary with the times and the countries, and yet, the moral
issues involved never change; for, right is eternal. To detect this
ethical element amid the ever restless waves of human activities has