They did not know Him as well as they knew His doctrine.

They knew better what He said than why He said it, and that defect obscured His meaning and mystified their understandings.

That all men were brethren was the result of their study of humanity under what they conceived to be His leadership; that all labor is honorable, and entitled to equal remuneration, was their solution of the social problem.

While any man was superfluously rich, they maintained, no man should be miserably poor.

They were reaching after what the best spirits of the human race were then and now longing for, and they succeeded as well as any can who employ only the selvage of the Christian garment to protect themselves against the rigors of nature.