826 Causes and Course of Organic Evolution 



spiritual life of each. But apart from the many advantages 

 flowing from this, they are at stated places assailed by certain 

 officers who often compel worrying examinations, cause need- 

 less delays, scatter at times the contents of trunks, suitcases, 

 and handbags on the pavement, tempt weak ones to prevari- 

 cation, and are — as clearest evidence has proven — themselves 

 at times lured into dishonesty. Worst in this respect is that 

 country of freedom, the United States, which often seems 

 jealous lest any other country should benefit at its expense. 

 The system supports a horde of office holders, who are paid 

 by each nation for viewing its own citizens suspiciously. When 

 sound cogitic and spiritic counsels prevail, such vexations 

 will disappear, for the nation's individuals w^ill be ashamed 

 of them. 



(2) International expositions — though at times attended 

 with friction in the past — will become educative and stimulating 

 centers for display of international art, treasures, manufac- 

 tures, raw^ products, that will constantly advance and en- 

 lighten each nation that exploits such. But, further, one of 

 the grandest benefits attending the Chicago Exposition of 

 1893 was the Congress of Religion, that brought together re- 

 ligionists from the ends of the earth in friendly discussion 

 and comparison. Since that time bigotry has seldom reared 

 its head, and only then to plead that possibly the human in- 

 tellect was becoming too precipitate. 



(3) Groups of capitalists, teachers, w^orkers, and social organ- 

 izers are ever more frequently making international visits 

 to country after country, and on return present the good and 

 bad points of each, so that new proenvironal lines of action 

 are started that incorporate all or many of the best ]:)oints 

 seen in each nation's growth. Here, be it said, when large 

 groups of educated thinkers who have been drawn from and 

 are at one with the w^orking classes, children of them in truth 

 who glory in their birthright, shall have been trained as apt 

 linguists in three or four of the leading tongues, and are dele- 

 gated to attend international congresses, the world's advance 

 and peace will be assured. The international trades-union 



