further
need for that 'joke of the ages' at Hague. A 'Palace of Peace' erected
by a 'millionaire'! No wonder the Hague conventions were 'scraps of
paper.'"

It was such doctrines that brought about the revolution.

It was not a revolution of force, although at its outset a mob of
irresponsibles stoned the Government offices in Berlin. The distinctive
note preached by the Humanists was abolition of armed force and reform
by constitutional means. So when Wilbrid's mighty "Army of Humanity"
marched through Berlin as a demonstration of numbers, half of its ranks
were soldiers. But they walked with arms reversed as a proof of the
death of "Armed Force."

The presence of the soldiers in the crowd was evidently misunderstood at
Potsdam, for that day the Kaiser and his staff fled and the Government
resigned.

Then the wonderful organising ability of Brother Wilbrid asserted
itself. Within a few days the socialistic doctrines of the Humanists
covered Germany.

The doctrines found ready acceptance. The Humanists pointed out that
their advocacy of the control of production by the Government for the
Common Good was not so novel in its application.

They showed that, before the war, the railways were Government-owned,
and it was ready to nationalise the electrical industry.

They showed that, during the war, every nation had taken over railway
traction and was manufacturing and supplying to citizens certain
necessaries of life.

They showed that in Britain for many years men who had argued that the
Government should take over and operate the privately-owned railways
were looked upon as revolutionaries, extremists and fanatics; yet on the
very day war was declared the British Government reached out and seized
every railroad and began to operate it.

"During the war Germany was manufacturing and supplying citizens with
food, clothing and shelter," preached Wilbrid. "If Governments can do
that for the sake of war they can do it for the sake of peace. If they
can operate clothing factories to clothe soldiers, they can operate them
to clothe citizens. If they can operate food factories to feed soldiers
on the firing line, they can operate food factories to feed starving
citizens. If such things can be done to destroy life, they can do these
things to preserve it."

These fantastic phrases struck home.

The fact was that the masses foresaw colossal taxation following the
war, and jumped at any opportunity of letting some on