"Furthermore in these days of telegraphs and radios no nation can possibly isolate itself from the spread of ideas, emotions and beliefs and these are infinitely more explosive and disruptive than gun-powder. Even were thorough-going isolation a practical possibility, it would not make us secure when forces of evil are abroad. The supine abandonment of t! world to them means to all practical intent siding with the evil against the good. Ultimately, if unchecked, these forces: of evil will become sufficiently strengthened to reach and batter down even storm-cellar doors. Thorough-going isolation will not save us from ultimate war.
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