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FIFTH TALK 85 seek wildly in all directions for a remedy for this great and crying shame, and some think they have foimd it in extreme radicalism, in anarchism, in all sorts of strange and abnormal ways. Having found, what they think to be a remedy they attach themselves to that cause and prosecute it unselfishly. One cannot blame them for pursuing unselfishly a line which they think will bring relief to their fellows. Of course discrimination is often very sadly lacking because they see only one side of the difficulty, and so they plunge themselves into something which will lead to worse troubles than that which they are trying to assuage. That often happens. It is their heads which are at fault, their discrimination—not their hearts. Their hearts, after all, desire to do something, often at a great personal loss and sacrifice, to relieve the trouble of their fellow-men. One learns to be very charitable when one understands all these things. The very same spirit which makes men join temperance and political associations of various sorts, which they think will help the world—that very same spirit is called forth in its highest aspect the moment man sees the real plan of the Logos for His system. He sees at onc^ how perfect everything would be if it could be carried out, and he sees furthermore that it will be carried out one day, and that the time it will take for that desirable consummation to be reached depends upon the number of people who are ready