It may
seem a long way to set things right, but it is the swift way and the
royal road, and there is no other; and nobody, no prophet crying before
his time, will be listened to until the people are ready for him. The
congregation must gather before the preacher can deliver what is in him
to say. The economic brotherhood which I have put forward as an Irish
ideal would, in its realization, make us at peace with ourselves, and if
we are at peace with ourselves we will be at peace with our neighbors
and all other nations, and will wish them the goodwill we have among
ourselves, and will receive from them the same goodwill. I do not
believe in legal and formal solutions of national antagonisms. While we
generate animosities among ourselves we will always display them to
other nations, and I prefer to search out how it is national hatreds are
begotten, and to show how that cancer can be cut out of the body
politic.
XIX.
It seems inevitable that the domination of the individual by the State
must become ever greater. It is in the evolutionary process.
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