American Revolution to maintain the taxpayers' right to representation, and the Civil War to establish the slaves' right to be free, are familiar illustrations. The same is true of that peaceful revolution of the past hundred years by which women's rights have been increased. In all cases where too much has been expected of such legal reforms, disappointment or despair has resulted. The discontent Mr. Bryce finds characteristic of the age is, perhaps, in part explicable as the discouragement resulting from the failure to regenerate the world on either side of the Atlantic by any sort of legislation. New rights can mean only new responsibilities and new duties; unless the one be accepted and the other performed, little or nothing is really gained. The whole ideal and tendency of our modern civilization are to teach every individual self-direction and self-government. No legal reform can do such work. The state, indeed, may/ do much, but not directly, through its laws. On the contrary, its main work must be as an educator of public opinion, and, like a wise teacher, it must set lessons not too difficult for the average capacity of the class. It is to hold up a standard of morality as far in advance of the average standard in the community as possible, without bringing the law into contempt or disregard. So far as law contributes to this work of education and moral improvement, it may be of immeasurable value. Even greater are the opportunities afforded to the state by its schools and institutions of learning. Here it is brought into direct and intimate contact with the minds of citizens while young and plastic. Moral education on these subjects in our schools is sadly lacking. Obviously, it should relate, not directly to divorce, but to all the relations and duties of home life so constantly and sadly misunderstood. The neglect of these is the seed, and divorce only the fruit. The church or ethical society has, perhaps, greater power and better opportunities than the state for educating and purifying public opinion. The opportunities have long been sorely neglected and public opinion allowed to degenerate. Our situation resembles in some degree that of the Roman Empire. Women, there, were emancipated by law and custom; again they have gained their freedom, legal and economic. A moral or religious reform, like that which came in Christianity, is needed to teach and enforce the new duties that have come with the new rights and new powers: new duties of wives to remain faithful to their husbands, though not compelled as formerly by law or economic dependence; new duties of husbands to treat their wives not as subordinates, but as equals. If it be admitted that the family is in a state of reconstruction, that its old form is proving insufficient for meeting the new conditions, then a careful and thorough study of the subject, in all its relations, is a prime necessity. Otherwise the education just urged will be incorrect and misleading. Education in all the relations and admitted duties of home life, moral and religious reform to supply motives for a performance of the duties thus made clear, and study to determine the changes in the family introduced by our new conditions and the attendant change in duties; such are the remedies that appear of permanent value. UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. Seth Low, LL.D., President. J. W. Burgess, LL.D., Prof. of Constitutional and International History and Law. Richmond M. Smith, Ph.D., Prof. of Political Economy. Munroe Smith, J. U. D., (Adj.) Prof. of Roman Law and Comparative Jurisprudence. F. J. Goodnow, LL.B., (Adj.) Prof. of Administrative Law. E. R. A. Seligman, Ph.D., (Adj.) Prof. of Political Economy. H. L. Osgood, Ph. D., (Adj.) Prof. of History. Wm. A. Dunning, Ph.D., Lecturer on Political Philosophy. Frederick W. Whitridge, LL B., Lecturer on the History of New York. A. C. Bernheim, Ph.D., Lecturer on City and State Politics. Frederic Bancroft, Ph.D, Lecturer on Political History. Charles B. Spahr, Ph.D., Lecturer on Taxation. L. HISTORY. COURSES OF LECTURES. (1) Outlines of Medieval History (undergraduate course), (5) Political and Constitutional History of England to 1688 (1) History of the Relations between England and Ireland (13) Seminarium in History II. POLITICAL ECONOMY. (1) Elements of Political Economy (undergraduate course) Historical and Practical Political Economy. (3) Taxation and Finance.. (4) Communism and Socialism (s) Statistics: Methods and Results (6) History of Economic Theories.. (7) Financial History of the United States (8) Tariff History of the United States. 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