We may be assured that the divine law is not mocked, and it cannot be
deceived. As men sow so do they reap. The anger we create will rend
us; the love we give will return to us. Biologically, everything
breeds true to its type: moods and thoughts just as much as birds and
beasts and fishes. When I hear people raging against England or Germany
or Russia I know that rage will beget rage, and go on begetting it, and
so the whole devilish generation of passions will be continued. There
are no nations to whom the entire and loyal allegiance of man's spirit
could be given. It can only go out to the ideal empires and
nationalities in the womb of time, for whose coming we pray. Those
countries of the future we must carve out of the humanity of today, and
we can begin building them up within our present empires and
nationalities just as we are building up the co-operative movement in a
social order antagonistic to it. The people who are trying to create
these new ideals in the world are outposts, sentinels, and frontiersmen
thrown out before the armies of the intellectual and spiritual races yet
to come into being.
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