"m sem xk com This explains, though it is not the only reason, the persistent activity of (he Vatican in pursuit of peace. Neither the Vatican nor the Protestant churches can have any doubt whatever as to the survival of Christi-unity.
Therefore, they reason, the earlier a peace the better, because during the peace, the gathering powers of Christian civilization would unceasingly be undermining the material structure on which the German in-regration is based.
Nevertheless, somewhere hidden in the German master plan must be a fundamental truth. Such things as Hitlerism do not rise and spread and meet with even temporary success unless there is in them somewhere a basic truth. There are those who sey that Hitlerism is merely a consequence of economic agony in Germany. May not the world also have been in economic agony?
One wonders sometimes if statesmen and peoples must forever fail currently to recognize the probable effects of the impact of invention and progress on their affairs.
Probably there was no living person who realized at the time that the acquisition by the Greeks of rich silver mines would enable them ulti mately to drive back the Persians and achieve domination of the whole world as then known, passing down to posterity certain principles and methods which even to this date are guiding in human affairs.
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