by intelligence. It will be abolished when the poor people of
Germany, of France, of Spain, of England, and other countries find
that they have no interest in war. When those who pay, and those
who do the fighting, find that they are simply destroying their
own interests, wars will cease.

There ought to be a national court to decide national difficulties.
We consider a community civilized when the individuals of that
community submit their differences to a legal tribunal; but there
being no national court, nations now sustain, as to each other,
the relation of savages--that is to say, each one must defend its
rights by brute force. The establishment of a national court
civilizes nations, and tends to do away with war.

Christianity caused so much war, so much bloodshed, that Christians
were forced to interpolate a passage to account for their history,
and the interpolated passage is, "I came not to bring peace, but
a sword." Suppose that all the money wasted in cathedrals in the
Middle Ages had been used for the construction of schoolhouses,
academies, and universities, how much better the world would have
been! Suppose that instead of supporting hundreds of thousands of
idle priests, the money had been given to men of science, for the
purpose of finding out something of benefit to the human race here
in this world.

_Question_. What is your opinion of "Christian charity" and the
"fatherhood of God" as an economic polity for abolishing poverty
and misery?

_Answer_. Of course, the world is not to be civilized and clothed
and fed through charity. Ordinary charity creates more want than
it alleviates. The greatest possible charity is the greatest
possible justice. When proper wages are paid, when every one is
as willing to give what a thing is worth as he is now willing to
get it for less, the world will be fed and clothed.

I believe in helping people to help themselves. I believe that
corporations, and successful men, and superior men intellectually,
should do all within their power to keep from robbing their fellow-
men. The superior man should protect the inferior. The powerful
should be the shield of the weak. To-day it is, for the most part,
exactly the other way. The failures among men become the food of
success.

The world is to grow better and better through intelligence, through
a development of the brain, through taking advantage of the forces
of nature, through science, through chemist