96 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

In a word, this has been the hypocrisy of the
past. There is a danger of the same being
carried on in the present, and what is done now
is going to rule the future.

The time has now come when internationalism
is a possibility. Let us look back say a thousand
years when the world was separate one part
from another, shut up as it were into water-
tight compartments, divided by distance, many
lands unknown and ungetatable, when inter-
course between nations was practically impos-
sible. Wars have been the means of helping
international relations. This seems a strange
contradiction, but if we can imagine the world
without war, we have also to imagine the
world with no intercourse with other nations.
After each war internationalism has spread and
a desire to know more of other countries, other
lands, has come out of each war. A respect
for other nations has grown out of each war,
for war has its place and has been necessary,
nay, has been part of the evolution of the
world. The greatest war is now over, and
never has there been such a desire shown on all
sides for a better understanding and for closer
international relations.

The special work of the Theosophical Society
has helped this to a large degree by the