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Show linillll.RT hri.Mf.lt aMl MATB MHUIISH. Anoux two week! ago, acornapoud-ent acornapoud-ent of the N ew Yor H'orM I nterriewed lletbrrt Hix-ncet at the Athaoioiin Club lul.mbn. Thaauljrct or the Interview wan, lu Ihe main, "the future of Anieflca." Mr. Sncef atate.1 that a cleat reaction aeemt to ! letting in a;alnal Indlrldtul liberty, while, t the aimo time, there la a ilroug tendency to HUte Hxlallam. Awl thla latter, the philosopher clalma, la but the alepplug alone to a military drapgtlam. Aa lu wheu thla will come about Iki aiya, "I do not pretend to et a title for Hie citaattof he, ot to antlclpato Ha hotrore," bnt come It would In Hla 0lllloll, t)n being Interrogated aa to the.allui-Hon the.allui-Hon In America, lie clllma that the Idiugrri here aro eTen greater, becautc therttate Uabtolbluf the IndlebluiPe fiuelom of aotljn mm.li faator thiu elaewliere. lleaaya: "The American hat tlteform of aelf-aovi aelf-aovi rolguty, but he doca not bavo It lu realllr, 11 la dllucull to1 foreaeo what will bo Ibonutciimo of American pro-great, pro-great, but I do notlhlnk that your It"-pilbllorlll It"-pilbllorlll etetpotheeonaiyloeiiQet olthe general atruggle. The fart la, few meu have any Into appreciation of liberty Hiibacrvlcneo to a majority In jwreonat ooncema la aa ba I it inbtervleiu-e to a king, in I there can be no worae deapnl than tbemajorlty. Juat Inthoaaine way that lueu have now come to reatat thi dtolatlon of thtNtatoOM II uno nt tho majority of mettnti reanei t or their re-llgtoat re-llgtoat belleft, m w hen they fully under aland llbcttr will they come to realat audi illoUltoii, ovi n of thoinllhou at nf the oue, lit liullcra of prlvite concern." The needed reform of the preaent la, hethlnka,tliatoaoh man ahall lw com palled to take the conertijcncet of hi. own nature, an I ihill have without deduction all the benaHU or evlla of II. rtieevllaofthe Individual aliall not beaidJIeiloilother people, not Ihlll lint IntlTlduil be defriuded of thu benellUof hit. nature by other people. Mr. Hpcncer wit atked whit hu thought the moot etfecllveall to the American people In the way of re lliclun, JoufniHam and aclencv. Ileto. plied that Icichlng did little, Ihe dla. cli Hue of Ufa everything. There la nothing to do but to Inalat Un the carrying on of life lu a thoroughly hom-at, coiiaolentloua way anl repro. h'lHuguverytlilngthat doet not con. firm to a high alandtrd of con-luct." con-luct." Hat He aaya that Aoaerl-caua Aoaerl-caua uiifurlunitely can uot adopt euch a standard of life. In a loclelyoonatltuted aa oun la, am l.ltlou luevlubly tikea the direction of lopilrlog Health, and the atruggle for It brlnga Inevitable evlla, and until the wholeooiillneut la peopled he thlnka thlioouiMHou will continue. The Uelnlt .Yalta, conmiei-tlng on tin, H'orfif Interview, aaja tbitrllate rioclillam It lu Itarlf a military ,U-.il-lam. Ita i-urpoaola toorginltt Itulut. try upon rt military baala, to produo. wealth and prrform all the fuuctloua o' aoclety, Ihua entirely deprlvlug the lij. dlvlJualof frte, voluntary, apontite oua action, lu Uuropean roiiutrlua a Urge nieaa-ire of alatu control lu many iliatltioee It the rule. Ill the Unlleu Htatee nil reform organliat'oua clamor for an onlargeminl of thu laiwiriaud functloutof govetliiiienl. And till), aaya thu Aeiea, In the lnu ol the fact that out material proaurlly hut alvancivl aa' It haa novtr nd vauieil bvforu uudir the grcatit Ji-grte of freedom the Individual illlzwii Ina over enloyed. Hut thutvll Ilia III the liiKiultable dlttrlbillloll uf tlJa material proaptrity among ua. Whelhir thla la duo to the Individual fretdom eujoji'd la auoth, f iuci,tlou, The Arua Ihluka that It la beue Ihetu waa not enough of IntMlual fncloui that lltibert t-penctt'a Idea of Individual rct(iou!i lllly waa not adhered to, and that American iltlzeui P Ink wlmthnnallt "illtcllln "I" That la, ach -erou nitiit kn w b o n Hghta and liave the moral coarage to maintain them; ami lie muil alw hive the moral rectitude not to Inva lo the right of othera. He who will How hla own tlghu'lo lo Infringed Kilt, when ho haa the power, Invade tha tight of olhera. |