ends have laid down theirs. We are
met at a culminating moment of human fate--when, so far as human
judgement can discern, the political destinies of this planet are being
settled for many generations to come--perhaps for good. If the task of
leadership in the arts of government remains with us, let us face the
responsibility conscious of the vast spiritual issues which it involves,
and let us so plan and act that history, looking back on these years of
blood, may date from them a new birth of freedom and progress, not for
ourselves in this country alone but throughout that kingdom of Man which
must one day, as we believe, become in very truth the kingdom of God.

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE

1. _Man's Control over Nature_:

Ray Lankester, _The Kingdom of Man_, and other essays. 1912.

Demolins, _Comment la route cree le type social_.

Curtis (ed. by), _The Commonwealth of Nations_. Vol. i, 1916.

Murphy, _The Basis of Ascendancy_. 1909.

_Introduction to the Study of International Relations_ (Greenwood
and others). 1916.

2. _Political Ideals_:

_The Jews_: Todd, _Politics and Religion in Ancient Israel_. 1904.

_Greece_: _Aristotle's Politics_, translated by B. Jowett. 1908.

Dickinson, _The Greek View of Life_. 1909.

Barker, _The Political thought of Plato and Aristotle_. 1908.

_Rome_: H. Stuart Jones, _The Roman Empire_. (Story of the
Nations.) 1908. Warde Fowler, _Rome_ (Home University
Series).

_The Middle Ages_: A. L. Smith, _Church and State in the Middle
Ages_. 1911.

Gierke, _Political Theories of the Middle Ages_ (introduction by
Maitland). 1900.

_Miscellaneous_: Wallas, _Human Nature in Politics_. 1908.

Acton, _The History of Freedom_, and other essays. 1909.

Lowell, _The Government of England_.

Buelow, _Imperial Germany_. 1916.

FOOTNOTES:

[53] A. L. Smith, _Church and State in the Middle Ages_, pp. 207-8.

[54] Lankester, _Nature and Man_, Romanes Lecture, 1905, pp. 27-9.

[55] _The Commonwealth of Nations_, edited by L. Curtis, Part I, p. 130.

[56] Ibid., p. 166.

[57] P. H. Kerr in _An Introduction to the Study of International
Relations_, 1915, p. 149.

[58] A still better name would be the Great Responsibilities.

[59] _Second Thoughts of an Economist_, 1916, pp. 17-18, 22.

[60] _Freedom and other Essays_, p. 22.

[61] Isaiah lxvi. 2; lvii. 19, 21; ii. 3, 4.

[62] _Ecclesiastical Polity_, Book I,