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Show WHERE WE NEED PROTECTION Not Against the Autocrat, But tha t Outgrown Social Instltu-' IJ tlon. ,), . j . - It is not tho autocrit, but the, ouf- j grown social institution, against which i society requires protection. Not tha ' legislature or tho executive, but tha constitution and tho prevailing Judicial and 'a'dmlnlstratlv"e'-pf6ccdur'o. aro a 'the way of progress; or xather, .'carry-tng .'carry-tng tho analysis, fine stop farther our difficulties are not so much with tha constitution and 'procedure, as with our own reluctance to amend and modern-lie modern-lie them. Knowlcdgo and conviction havo gono far ahead of existing mechanism me-chanism and habit. The clash Is none the less real becauso It Is not between two distinct classes, between a rullme class and a revolting class, for oxani, pie; but rather notwoen our own selves of tradition and habit on the one hand, nnd ourselves of the present environment and now standards. Thoso conflicts with our own Inherited traditions tradi-tions and habits aro perhaps tho roost exasporatlng and tragic of all, ' |