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people's and many other nations' horizons. We
are apt to think our little peep of the
great horizon is all, whereas every one's is
different, and yet each one's angle of vision
is wanted to make up a whole. In nature there
is nothing duplicated, no flower or leaf; each
has its own individuality, and so have we ; but
the leaves and the flowers work in harmony
and make up a beautiful tree, and we have not
yet learnt to work in harmony, hence the
chaos and divisions. Unity in diversity is what
is wanted, both with nations and with people,
and nothing short of this will make for
brotherhood.

It means a great stride to bring ourselves to
do to others as we would be done by, to give
the same latitude in speech and in outlook as we
claim for ourselves, or to claim the same right
for others as we claim for ourselves. It is
a big aim, but inevitable if we desire to work
for brotherhood. The spirit of a common
lot, a common toil, a common pain, a common
joy, no joy for us unless all share it, no pleasure,
but it must be others' pleasure too. If one is
weary, we must partake of his weariness, if one
is overburdened, we must share it so as to lighten
that burden. This is no ideal to laugh at,
neither is it beyond reach but must be cultivated.