Every nation, Miss Rayden be-Vioves, has a particular genius of its own. 'In the Anglo-Saxon race this gift is political genius, by which is meant far more than' "the rather vulgar game of politics." It was this gift which made Great Britain 'a nation when the rest of Europe was divided still into cities and mall states warring one against the other. The British parliament, though in modified or altered form, was nevertheless the model of every. constitution in the world. The gift of the British is expressed in the power to organize floating aspira-Hions, to make an ideal practicable, and be patient with the clump framework of its reality.
At the present the floating ideal of all the we peace. But unless that ideal is given the framework of some sort of organization will evaporate as has happened to many another unslothed ideal, The: genius of the Anglo-Saxon, the speaker went 02, has made democracy to-day a work-aday express sion, The League of Nations woald have died but for the faith of one Englishmen, Lord Robert Cecil, he was then, and his determination that it should live and be made to
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