to engage in it; that such as wish to preserve a
national existence, must do so by making haste to ally themselves with
the friends of universal peace, through international arbitration.

"Under such circumstances, the nations of the earth, ground between the
inexorable, upper and lower millstones of the first and second cause,
acting under pressure of self-preservation, will, with one accord, join
in covenanting for a total disarmament, and a perpetual peace. All
hail, the glad day!

"Then, will dawn man's era of true spiritual evolution! Then, will the
true object and purpose of life, be understood! Then, will the
sacredness of human life, be rightly conceived, appreciated, maintained
and respected! Then, wholesale murder, no longer sanctioned by man-made
laws, it will be possible to banish the spirit of murder from the life
of the individual! Then, the lesser crimes, the demons of despotic
selfishness, greed, cruelty, and lust for power, which now clog progress
and prevent the realization of a practical brotherhood for humanity, can
be shaken off and rendered harmless!

"Then, the emancipated legions of toilers, will rise to a true
understanding of the blessing of labor as the real expression of life;
that the glory of labor, is man's conquest over matter; that food,
shelter, raiment, and sustenance for body, mind and soul, are the
essential elements of life; a natural equipment for the conquest! Then,
it will be the province of a natural religion to teach the people how to
help themselves! how to master the great problem of physical life, by
attaining the greatest perfection in feeding, clothing, housing,
educating, and spiritualizing humanity!

"Then, the solidarity of the spiritual welfare of mankind, will equal
that of the physical! Then, the measure of spiritual progress achieved
by the mass, will be the measure of progress attained by its weakest
unit! Then, will come perfect co-operation, between the spiritual and
the physical! Then, will come the reign of liberty and justice, the
guardian spirits of a true republic! Then, will come the social, the
industrial, and the spiritual millennium! Then, the barriers of
selfishness will have been burned away; the two worlds will be united;
in the new atmosphere of brotherly love, spirit and mortal may
harmoniously walk, talk, and work together for the perfection of the
race!

"Then, the great armies of the world, no longer in the guise of
organized barbarism, or