Give them a fair chance, and the natural goodness of human nature would do the rest.
Individual and public interest will, on the whole, coincide, provided no individuals are allowed to have special privileges.

Thus the American system will be predestined to success by its own adequacy, and its success will constitute an enormous stride towards human amelioration.
Just because our system is at bottom a thorough test of the ability of human nature to respond admirably to a fair chance, the issue of the experiment is bound to be of more than national importance.

The American system stands for the highest hope of an excellent worldly life that mankind has yet ventured,--the hope that men can be improved without being fettered, that they can be saved without even vicariously being nailed to the cross.
Such are the claims advanced on behalf of the American system; and within certain limits this system has made good.

Americans have been more than usually prosperous.

They have been more than usually free.
They have, on the whole, made their freedom and prosperity contribute to a higher level of individual and social excellence.