But so does the elimination of individualism, whether by law or custom.

It is a capital error to fail to recognize the vital need of good laws.

It is also a capital error to believe that good laws will accomplish anything unless the average man has the right stuff in him.

The toiler, the manual laborer, has received less than justice, and he must be protected, both by law, by custom, and by the exercise of his right to increase his wage; and yet to decrease the quantity and quality of his work will work only evil.

There must be a far greater meed of respect and reward for the hand worker than we now give him, if our society is to be put on a sound basis; and this respect and reward cannot be given him unless he is as ambitious to do the best possible work as is the highest type of brain worker, whether doctor or writer or artist.