Let them grapple bravely with all social problems, and prove whether Christianity, which has done so much to purify the motives of individuals, may not be able also to put a more effective steam into the machinery of society. If they shall fail here, they will fail gloriously, having done their best. It is not given to any people, however great, to solve all problems. When Great Britain shall have played out her part, there will be scope enough in the process of the ages for another stout social worker to place the cornice on the edifice of which she was privileged to raise the pillars. The End FOOTNOTES. [Footnote 1] Plutarch conjugalia præcepta init. [Footnote 2] The word _clan_ is the familiar, well-known Celtic word for _children_. [Footnote 3] "Nulli alii sunt homines qui talem in liberos habeant potestatem qualem nos habemus." _Institut_. i. 9, 2. [Footnote 4] Thucyd. ii. 15. The Athenians went further, and attributed to the son of Ægeus the creation of their democracy (Pausan., _Att_. iii.); but this, of course, was only the popular instinct, everywhere active, which loves to heap all graces upon the head of a favourite hero. [Footnote 5] See the words of the Latin league, Dionys. Hal. vi. 95, contrasting strongly with the original collection of autonomous villages described by Strabo, v. 229, κατἁ κώμας αὐτονομεῖσθαι. [Footnote 6] The influence of the great city in centralising the villages and making a state possible was in Greece philologically stereotyped by the fact that for _city_ and _state_ the language had only one word, πόλις. The _city_ was the _state_ in the same sense that the head is the body, for without the head no living body could be. [Footnote 7] ὁ στρατιωτικὸς βίος πολλὰ ἒχει μέρη τῶς ἀρετῆς.--Aristot. Pol. ii. 9. St. Paul also frequently in the Epistles, and Clemens Romanus (Oxon. 1633, p. 48) refers to the military profession as a great school of manly virtue. [Footnote 8] Spalding's _Italy_, ii. p. 284. [Footnote 9] _On Method in Political Science_. [Footnote 10] Sismondi, _Etudes sur l'economie politique_, Essai iv. [Footnote 11] With which sentence Mr. Freeman agrees. _Comparative Politics_, Lecture iii. p. 78. [Footnote 12] This parallel has been noticed by the thoughtful Germans; see particularly Zacharia Sulla, i. 40. [Footnote 13] τίνος γὰρ ἂλλου ζῴου ψυχὴ πρῶτα μὲν θεῶν τῶν τὰ μέγιστα καὶ κάλλιστα συνταξάντων ᾔσθηται ὃτι εἰσι: τί δὲ φῦλον ἄλλο ἢ ἄνθρωποι θεοὺς θεραπεύουσι.--Xen. _Mem_. i. 4. [Footnote 14] _Iliad_, iii. 271; and compare Virgil, _Æneid_, iii. 80. [Footnote 15] Xen., _Rep. Lac._, i. 15; Herod, vi. 56. [Footnote 16] Pollux, viii. 90. [Footnote 17] Xen., _Mem_. i. 3. [Footnote 18] From the διδαχή τῶν ἀποστόλων, or _Early Teaching of the Apostles_, lately discovered, ch. viii., we learn that it was the custom of the early Christians to observe two days of fasting in the week--Wednesday and Friday.--Edit. Oxford Parker, 1885. [Footnote 19]