asses and the sexes; that the
whole conglomerated mass of hatreds and inherited enmities and
segregated interests; the absurd idea that one part of the world can
permanently prosper by the enslavement of any part; the undeveloped
and savage ideas that underlie our civilization; all these
thought-concepts have no more reality in the cosmic scheme of things,
than have the picture-blocks of the child in the adult life.

The world has been living through a nightmare. The warfare which
belongs to the animal plane of Man's evolving consciousness has been
carried into the mental world as well. Not only do men fight like
tigers in the jungles, but they fight with tongue and pen as well,
using food products, textile fabrics, inventions, mechanical devices
and the creations of brains of men, for their weapons. But this type
of warfare will not much longer survive. Mankind must choose between
transmutation or annihilation. Hatred is self-destructive. Blind
indeed must be those who can expect to escape this law. "They who use
the sword shall perish by the sword." How else can it be? There is but
one force. If we use it to construct, we are constructed. If we use it
to destroy we are destroyed, since it is by the very nature of law
that we become involved in that which we employ. It is a simple sum in
arithmetic. We may either add or subtract. If we add, there is no
limit. If we subtract we ultimately wipe off the slate.

The fact is dawning upon an increasing number of thinkers, that even
as brain is superseding brawn in the marts of the world, so there is
still a finer and higher and better force, so potential in its power
that nothing can withstand its melting, merging, unifying motive. That
power is love, without which though we have all else we are but as
"sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal."

Even as the ferocious man-eating animals have disappeared from the
earth; even as the giant gladiators, the mailed knights, the erotic
pomp and regalia of Imperialism, with their captives chained to their
chariot-wheels; the cruel despots, the tyrannical masters and scourged
slaves; the bloody sacrifices, the horrible games of the
amphitheatres, even as these one-time evidences of alleged
"civilization" have passed away, so too will time see the dissolution
of our own "false gods." Transmuted into pure and perfect love and
peace and equality, the power now misapplied in the work of hate and
destruction, will increase a thousand fold