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 The Political and Social Reconstruction 405 we have an intimation of what the human will can do with material possibilities. We have dreams ; we have at present undisciplined' but ever increasing power. Can we doubt that presently our race will more than realize our boldest imaginations, that it will achieve unity and peace, that it will live, the children of our blood and lives will live, in a world made more splendid and lovely than any palace or garden that we know, going on from strength to strength in an ever widening circle of adventure and achievement ? What man has done, the little triumphs of his present state, and all this history we have told, form but the prelude to the things that man has yet to do.