ATTITUDE TO ALL RELIGIONS 47

to find the truth underlying them, one has a
different attitude to life, a different attitude
to all the world. I think nothing helps to
break down barriers so quickly, and nothing
gives a clearer vision of Brotherhood. In
understanding a religion one begins to un-
derstand a people and in understanding a
people to respect their customs and traditions.
Only by studying to understand thus shall we
be able to work towards a Brotherhood that
is founded on an equality before God.

By equality before God I mean that every
nation or people has the same right to live, the
same right to freedom, the same right to feel
the warmth of the Sun and to look at the stars.
Equality as man to man is not what is required
nor is it possible, and those who now-a-days
preach that equality have a mistaken idea.
Our past lives and our past sowings and reapings
prevent equality. We are very diverse,—you
with one capability and I with another. But
that we have an equality before God, that we
all have a right to walk towards perfection and
that no nation has a special blessing dealt out
to it, but only a blessing earned by itself in the
past, that is what I want to make quite clear.

The struggle towards a League of Nations,
the struggle to prevent another War, can only