BROTHERHOOD 81

Apparently one of the most difficult for us
to include in a Brotherhood is the crimi-
nal. No country is an exception here, but
we find a great deal of difference in the last
ten or fifteen years. A. beginning has been
made to treat the criminal not as an outcast but
as a man suffering from a form of mental
disease or deficiency. In working on these lines
(and there are many irons in the fire) it shows a
step in the brotherhood direction. Specially
are some nations realising this with reference to
young offenders. Until lately the treatment
meted out to them scarcely bears reading, and
a gleam of light has come to us, a very faint
one as yet, but still a gleam that can never be
darkened. Capital punishment still exists in
many countries; it is surprising to find that this
is so when we can point to so many struggles
towards brotherhood.

A brotherhood must mean a universal sym-
pathy, a realisation of belonging everywhere
and to everything, a common property, part of
a team, part of one struggle, part of another's
toil, part of another's aim—towards one goal—a
living sense of unity that knows that a false
step shakes the world, and a step forward raises
it also and helps it upward,—ever so little,
but still a little. There is no such 'thing as