Second:  Have faith in mankind.  The great fault of our scholarship is that it is not sufficiently sympathetic.  It holds itself aloof from the struggling masses.  It is too often cold and cynical.  It is better to trust your fellowmen and be occasionally deceived than to be distrustful and live alone.  Mankind deserves to be trusted.  There is something good in every one, and that good responds to sympathy.  If you speak to the multitude and they do not respond, do not despise them, but rather examine what you have said.  If you speak from your heart, you will speak to their hearts, and they can tell very quickly whether you are interested in them or simply in yourself.  The heart of mankind is sound; the sense of justice is universal.  Trust it, appeal to it, do not violate it.  People differ in race characteristics, in national traditions, in language, in ideas of government, and in forms of religion, but at the heart they are very much alike.  I fear the plutocracy of wealth; I respect the aristocracy of learning; but I thank God for the democracy of the heart.  You must love if you would be loved.  “They loved him because he first loved them”—­this is the verdict pronounced where men have unselfishly laboured for the welfare of the whole people.  Link yourselves in sympathy with your fellowmen; mingle with them; know them and you will trust them and they will trust you.  If you are stronger than others, bear heavier loads; if you are more capable than others, show it by your willingness to perform a larger service.

Third:  If you are going to accomplish anything in this country, you must have faith in your form of government, and there is every reason why you should have faith in it.  It is the best form of government ever conceived by the mind of man, and it is spreading throughout the world.  It is best, not because it is perfect, but because it can be made as perfect as the people deserve to have.  It is a people’s government, and it reflects the virtue and intelligence of the people.  As the people make progress in virtue and intelligence, the government ought to approach more and more nearly to perfection.  It will never, of course, be entirely free from faults, because it must be administered by human beings, and imperfection is to be expected in the work of human hands.

Jefferson said a century ago that there were naturally two parties in every country, one which drew to itself those who trusted the people, the other which as naturally drew to itself those who distrusted the people.  That was true when Jefferson said it, and it is true to-day.  In every country there are those who are seeking to enlarge the participation of the people in government, and that group is growing.  In every country there are those who are endeavouring to obstruct each step toward popular government, and that group is diminishing.  In this country the tendency is constantly toward more popular government, and every effort which has for its object the bringing of the government into closer touch with the people is sure of ultimate triumph.