There is then a way out of the world's calamities that is perfectly clear however difficult, and when ther or not our civilization perishes depends on our taking the way we see. It means in short that "it is no longer sufficient to be good patriots"—Austrian ' or Greek, American or British. The universe is waiting for us to prove ourselves Sons of God with am outlook ant sympathy as broadly human as Christ's.
The trouble of the world to-day, if you analyse it, is not that Nature failing us, but that we have not caught up with the new situation. We all know that insistence on partial rights at the expense of the whole is landing us in unceasing war, and that war only makes confusion more confounded, yet in spite of the demand for a new breadth and a new boldness Poles and Greeks and the rest are acting as if this were not a new world. It is not Greeks or Poles, Russians or Englishmen that are on trial today but Humanity. That is why there has come into being a new conscience towards war. We know instinctively that the world situation is not} demanding better nationals but bigger men, conscious of the opportunities "and responsibilities that the new world provides.
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