ing and absurd differences as these are based our ideas
of "alien" races and "foreign" nations.

Annihilation of space and time accomplished by modern mechanical
inventions has made us familiar with the interior life of other human
beings and has compelled us to the knowledge that they have feelings,
emotions, desires, hopes, aspirations, and faults, exactly like our
own, and thus will be established a bond of unity, which will reach
the heart of our neighbor. If this bond of unity has not as yet been
established, it is because the majority of Mankind are still only
sense-conscious. They have not yet assimilated the knowledge which the
past few years has precipitated in such an avalanche that the
slow-moving mind cannot keep pace with it. But out of all this
knowledge must come in due time the quality of wisdom. Wisdom seeks
love as the only eternal reality. Not because God has commanded that
we shall do so; not because of a sentimental ideal, but because any
other course is futile, foolish, silly and does not "get us anywhere"
as the slangologists rightly express it.

Thus everything in the busy commercial world, seemingly bent upon
perpetuating external forms and systems, is in reality a symbolic
language of which "unity" and "within" are the pivotal centers. These
two words are really complementary, because it is only with the
interior nature that unity can be established.

We may conjoin; combine; contact; cohere. We may form partnerships,
corporations, combinations from the outside. These are external
expressions of the interior desire for unity, but union is of the
interior nature only.

With the more intimate knowledge of each other which
intercommunication between nations makes general, each little
segregated mass of human beings must sooner or later arrive at the
conclusion that we are very much alike and that to "get together" on
any proposition involving the welfare of all humanity is a much less
costly and a far more satisfactory way of settling matters than by
going to war over it. Not that this idea is yet fixed in the brains of
the majority, but there is creeping into man's cranium a faint thought
that perhaps the survival of the fittest will be best maintained by
peaceful methods; an idea that honor can neither be maintained nor
appeased by shedding blood. This knowledge will bring us to the wise
observation that fundamentally, cosmically there is no place for
enmity between nations and races and cl