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 tice and at peace as its by-product. They consider peace as much more than a surcease of war. “Peace as understood by Pacifism means a condition of organized living together among nations.” This condition is far more immediately attainable than is the brotherhood of man. It demands no essential change of human nature. It demands organization which shall create in essence such relation ultimately between nations as exists between our States. This relation has not yet brought human brotherhood or even industrial justice, or civic righteousness. But it has set free a million beneficent activities which would never have been born had forty- eight series of custom-houses, armies, forts and arsenals blocked the way to friendly cooperation between our States.

The greatest glory of the United States is that it has shown the way to a United World. L. A. M.