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LEARNERS AS LEADERS to each of us his very soul, his inmost feeling—the very best of each of us—proves to be just what we all have in common.

It is because these human ties have been snapped by our adversaries, because they have trodden underfoot so much that we hold sacred, that we are fighting them. Our action in the war is our effort to recover a common ground, to compel our adversaries to meet us on the level of a common humanity. Peace implies reconciliation, the restoration of goodwill. That seems to-day a far-off 7