FOR centuries philosophers, savants, and economists have had much to say about the equality of supply and demand, and many theories have been offered as solutions for the glaring disparity between supply and demand in human experience. The present period is no exception. Almost every day we hear discussed some fresh panacea for the ills of the world—from the redistribution of material wealth already accumulated to the multiplication of suppositional values—which is guaranteed to solve difficulties and usher in a veritable Utopia.
None of these schemes, however well-intentioned, have lasting value, for the reason that they attempt to solve the problem by working from the wrong standpoint. They try to subtract when they should add, and to multiply when dividing is in order. The world economic problem is simply the aggregate of individual economic problems, and in order to reach a proper solution of the mass problem it must be approached from the standpoint of solving the individual problem.
There is a way out, but it cannot be found in material cure-alls. It can be found only in the way of spiritual thinking and right living. Each one must set about to find the way, and must not vainly wait for all the world's problems to be set in order before attempting to solve his own. Discerning the universality and availability of good for all, the prophet Isaiah gave to the world this invitation to accept the unlimited outpouring of good: Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price."
