88 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

and condition of all sections of the people. The
people, in their turn, should give to the State
the utmost of their capability in work, etc., each
man and womap responsible for the well-being
of others, not to take all he can get for himself but
to share, no longer a condition of a superfluity
of riches in one street and squalor in the next,
no longer epicures in one part of the town and
starvation within a stone's throw, for the rich
should see that there are none starving because
they have the power to prevent it. I do
not mean giving in charity; I refer to the
spirit of exploiting which is rife in all countries
more or less. The rich exploit the poor; the
clever, the ignorant; the strong, the weak. The
word Brotherhood knocks this all out. A strong
brother would protect the weak, the clever teach
the ignorant, and the rich share with the poor*

Chivalry seems to have gone out of life ; chi-
valry and gentlemanliness are closely allied, and
there can be no brotherhood without both. Chi-
valry belongs to the age of knights who fought
for gallantry, and who protected. A gentleman
cannot hurt another by look or word; he is
courteous in the extreme; he ever thinks of
others and puts himself in their place—treats
them accordingly. No man can be great
unless he is a chivalrous gentleman. This is