100 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

competitive system. The day for (( doing " our
neighbour must go; the day for working with
him, is come. That is the situation in a -word.

Do you think it by chance that international
movements of all sorts are being organised in
almost all countries? Nearly all of the great
movements in all countries become international
as if we all wanted to join c< willy-nilly ". A
spirit is growing fast which says " You cannot
keep anything to yourself, let us share."

I know the great scare of another war that
we all have been through in the last few weeks,
but what a marked difference there has been
in the way in which it has been talked of
and written about. It would appear that all
are trying to postpone it by trying to work
against war, quite a different attitude to ten
years ago, and so far it has been prevented on a
large scale, and many minor wars prevented too.
You may think that these are small things to
relate. But they seem to me to be big things,
for they show the attitude of mind of the
nations. They show that deep down war is not
wanted, and still more, they show that it is
preventible, and that Internationalism is becom-
ing a principle in the minds of all the nations.
That is the great step. Once each nation re-
cognises that it has obligations to other nations,