It is this alone which can really abolish the almost eternal class distinctions which we have traced throughout our survey, the distinction between the "haves" and the "have nots." For, as this spirit grows, the "have nots" tend to disappear, and the "haves" look upon what they have not as a selfish possession for their own enjoyment, but as a means of service for the common weal. Property, that which is most proper to a man, is seen to be precisely that contribution which he is capable of making to the welfare of his fellows. The crux, the very core of the whole problem, is to find some means by which this new outlook can be produced, and a new motive by which men can be constrained to turn the vision into fact. Here will come in that power which, as I pointed out, has sometimes been so potent and sometimes so impotent, but which, if it is allowed its proper scope, can never fail. I mean of course religion. If men can be brought to see that this new outlook with its corresponding re-adjustment of social life is not merely a project of reformers but the plan of the Most High God, the deliberate intention of the supreme Spirit-force of the universe, the Scheme that was taught by the Prince of men, then indeed we may hope that the class distinction of which He spoke will at last be adopted: "Whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many[30]." FOOTNOTES: [19] _Encycl. Brit._ xi. 604. [20] Macaulay's _History of England_ (Longman's, 1885), pp. 38, 39, 40. [21] _The Town Labourer_, p. 205. [22] _Ibid._, p. 212. [23] G. K. Chesterton, _Short History of England_, p. 98. [24] Stubbs' _Lectures on Early English History_, pp. 18, 19. [25] Benjamin Kidd, _Encycl. Brit._ vol. xxv. p. 329. [26] Lucian quoted by Harnack, _Mission and expansion of Christianity_, vol. I. p. 149. [27] _Ibid._ [28] Lactantius quoted by Harnack, _Ibid._ p. 168. [29] _History of England_ (Longman's, 1885), vol. I. p. 25. [30] St Mark x. 43-45. UNITY BETWEEN CLASSES II By the Right Hon. J. R. CLYNES, M.P.