Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand.
The answer must be that "the valiant man and free" must, like every one else, learn his business before he can expect to have any measure of success. The kindlier hand must be skilled by long practice before it can direct the vast social mechanism.
The Fury in Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" described the predicament in which the world has long found itself:—
The good want power but to weep barren tears.
The powerful goodness want; worse need for them.
The wise want love, and those who love want wisdom;
And all best things are thus confused to ill.
This is discouraging to the unimaginative mind, but the very confusion is a challenge to human intelligence. Here are all the materials for a more beautiful world. All that is needed is to find the proper combination. Goodness alone will not do the work. Goodness grown strong and wise by much experience is, as the man on the street would say, "quite a different proposition." Why not try it?