84 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

find that it ha? restrictions and so falls short of
the ideal of Brotherhood. In The Message of
the Himalayas Paul Richard appealingly says
to India:

Thou claimest equality among peoples and
races, and thou wouldst not have it amongst
casts! Thou shalt be the sister of all nations,
only when all thy sons among themselves are
brothers. . . . And all thy daughters, their
sisters and equals. . . .

There is a link of destiny, close and mysteri-
ous, between women and their nation. A nation
also is a woman, a mother. Whenever women are
treated as slaves, the nation becomes a slave
also. . . .

Seest thou these barriers, divisions, doors
closed to the stranger, to the pariah, to Brother
Man ? Nay, for thy soul has arisen, and with
her—Fraternity!

In India then, we see a claim for a partial
freedom, in England a claim for partial freedom
also within her domain ; why partial ? Because
she fears to claim absolute freedom; something
within her seeks to bind, and she fears to shake
off every trammel, for she knows not where that
freedom might land her.

The line that the pacifists took in the War
was typical—they claimed freedom but forgot
that everyone has a right to it, and not only
they. It is an interesting study to see what
constitutes a pacifists' war, especially from a