We can all enlist in these armies and be comrades
to the pioneers. I hope many will enlist in Ireland. I would cry to
our idealists to come out of this present-day Irish Babylon, so filled
with sectarian, political, and race hatreds, and to work for the future.
I believe profoundly, with the most extreme of Nationalists, in the
future of Ireland, and in the vision of light seen by Bridget which she
saw and confessed between hopes and tears to Patrick, and that this is
the Isle of Destiny and the destiny will be glorious and not ignoble,
and when our hour is come we will have something to give to the world,
and we will be proud to give rather than to grasp. Throughout their
history Irishmen have always wrought better for others than for
themselves, and when they unite in Ireland to work for each other, they
will direct into the right channel all that national capacity for
devotion to causes for which they are famed. We ought not only to
desire to be at peace with each other, but with the whole world, and
this can only be brought about by the individual citizen at all times
protesting against sectarian and national passions, and taking no part
in them, coming out of such angry parties altogether, as the people of
the Lord were called by the divine voice to come out of Babylon.
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