The test of allegiance to established institutions became immediately the achievement for which they were responsible.

The achievement, as they urged, was hardly written with adequacy in terms of the lives of humble men.

That was why they judged no attitude of worth which sought the equation of the real and the ideal.

The first lesson of their own experience of power was the need for its limitation by the instructed judgment of free minds.[18] [Footnote 18: Cf.

my _Authority in the Modern State_, pp.