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Show -" - W "THE GOSPEL" ACCORDING TO JACK LONDON Out of His Master Mini and Soul He Tried to Teach Mankind "A PEOPLE MUST HAVE some standard by which to measure itself and its individuals; then it must shape its institutions in such manner as will permit of its attaining this standard. If the measure of individual worth be, How much have I made, the present competitive system is the I best medium by which to gain that end . . . But if the measure ) be What have I made of myself, it cannot be attained by 1 th'epresent system . . . After all, the greatness of a community lies not in the strength of its strong bodies . . . but in its wisdom, its power for good, and its possibility of realizing . in itself'the highest and the best." In "What Communities Lose by the Competitive bystem. "I LOOK FORWARD TO A time when man shall progress pro-gress upon something worthier and higher than his stomach, when there will be a finer incentive to impel man to action than the incentive of today, which is the incentive of the stomach I retain my belief in the nobility and excellence f the human I believe that spiritual sweetness and unselfish-rLs unselfish-rLs will conquer the gross gluttony of today. And, last of 11 mv faith is in the working class. As some Frenchman has said "The stairway of time is ever echoing with the 0n shoe going up, the polished boot descending." wooden snJgackBLooni ..what L;fe Means To Me." (If anyone can get us a copy of either or both of the works of Jack London, mentioned above, we will reward him.) |