garded. He heard again the objection which had met every step of his life. "It is a good idea, but it is theoretical. It is not practical. It will not work. Things never have done that way." He saw this country, already wasting incalculable human energy, destroying innumerable lives daily, because of a "practical" system of organization, preparing to drain off still more energy, still greater wealth, in preparation for a still more terrible waste.
The dearest principle of his life, the principle whose truth he had proven through a life of hard work, was in danger of being swept away and forgotten.
