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Excerpt from The Beaumont Trust: A Sermon Preached by the Rev. J. M. Wilson, M.A., On Sunday Morning, February 21st, 1886, at Westminster Abbey, on the Church and the Labouring Classes

Therefore our Christian Church of to-day, which ought to be the very soul of the nation, the impulse and the guide towards all that is good, must give itself to these problems, and must work at the causes of these evils, and not only at their symptoms: it must prevent, and not only palliate. Where are the causes?

The ultimate cause is not in our laws. Naturally to the Revolutionary Social Democrat, who is not profound enough to see that the existing relations of society are the outcome and product of national character, these relations are the cause of all evils, including the defective standard of human virtue; and he clamours for a social and political revolution, as if that would alter human nature. It is not our morality, or want of morality, says the latest and most systematic exponent of modern Revolutionary Socialism, which makes our economic relations what they are, but our economic system which makes our morality what it is. This is but a superficial philosophy.

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