1t is understandable, from a purely human basis, how an unhappy people believing they have been mistreated and held down by others, might come to idolize one who would appear to be leading them out of their distress. And how, blinded through false loyalty they might be unable to see were being led, unable the difference between patriotic zeal and mad, destructive ambition.
It unquestionably is the right of all peoples and of every nation to have "living room" and an abundance of the necessities of life. An attempt, however, to acquire these by aggressive force or by wresting thei from weaker nations is, to the enlightened thought of today, a return to the barbaric methods of the darker ages. It is true there are few nations in whose historic pages there are not acts of conquest which would not stand the modern searchlight of truth, but down through the years the majority of them have been at-ming, though slowly, a higher moral Position, and that progress cannot be retarded by what the German people today feel is their necessity.
There is only one right way for any country to seek to supply the needs of its people—by following the injunction of the Way-shower, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Seeking the kingdom of God, wherein is expressed spiritual right, brotherly love, unselfishness, honesty, fair dealing truthfulness, is the exact opposite of trying to build up an exalted material state based on material might, hatred, personal domination, persecution, fear and tyranny. And of what avail is mere space as "living room," when the lives of a nation's people are choked with fear, oppress sion, and lack of individual liberty? Living room but no life of their own The greatest man the world ever has known often had no place wherein to lay his head, but his life was the froest, richest, and most bountiful of all lives.
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