A railway signalman, writing in the Atlantic Monthly, declares that the blame for the numerous railway accidents should not be charged to the railway officials or management, but to the men themselves, who ignore plain rules and "take chances." They regard the rules as "permissive" rather than as "positive," and therefore use their own judgment as to whether they shall regard them or not. But why do not the railway managements deal with such men? When 5,000 deaths and 76,286 injuries occur within a year, some one ought to act decisively. Men ought to be compelled to abide by rules. But this same sort of carelessness is manifest in the moral world as well. God's rules are considered permissive rather than positive, and human expediency overrules divine right.