DOMINANT IDEAS AND CORRECTIVE PRINCIPLES BY CHARLES GORE, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D. A. R. MOWBRAY & CO. LTD. MILWAUKEE, U.S.A.: The Morehouse Publishing Co. (RECAP) PREFACE This little book opens with three addresses delivered during a visitation of the diocese of Oxford in the early summer of this year. The first two addresses are devoted to maintaining that the dominant ideas of present-day democracy are fundamentally Christian ideas, but that Christianity is needed to supply the correctives of these ideas as popularly current. The weakness of the democratic movement is that it is much more occupied with claims than with responsibilities, and shows itself as a whole too little conscious of the moral difficulties involved in realizing its ideals. It exhibits but little sense of how profound a claim real democracy must make upon the average citizen-not only upon his intelligence, but also upon his character. It demands not only deepened and prolonged education, but also profound and widespread moral reformation. Jealousy, dishonesty, slackness, and lust appear to be as prevalent in the circles of "labour as in any others; and their prevalence does, I fear, threaten democracy with V 5959 .402 OCT 16:919 424130 |