CHAPTER XII 
The One Effective Remedy 
Equal Opportunity for All—Privilege for None—Conclusion. 
It is an easy matter to criticise. No work so 
perfect, no individual so blameless, no religion 
so sacred, no institution so venerated, but the 
fault-finder will discover its defects. There is a 
Thersites in every camp. 
But, while the tearing down process—the 
wholesale indictment of an existing order is a 
matter of ease; it is a different thing to propose 
some remedy which shall be effective, and which 
while remedying every evil, meets the ends of 
justice. The remedy which we propose for 
existing evils fully complies with this exacting 
standard. This remedy is not a “new idea.” It 
is merely the re-statement of a proposal which 
has appealed to the judgment, and received the 
approbation, of many great thinkers who have 
studied these problems. Moreover, this remedy 
is one which will be recognised by all who will 
give it careful attention as presenting a practical