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(6) Again, an international language already exists in Es- 

 peranto, that has so demonstrated its value and easy acquisi- 

 tion that, even though it be replaced by another, the successor 

 or some successor will prove an advance that in time will be- 

 come an accepted medium of communication. But in the 

 adoption of such a language antagonistic mfluences have to 

 be expected and overcome. For powerful vested interests in 

 commercial offices, in university centers, in governmental 

 bureaus, in regal halls, have to be considered. It has already 

 been demonstrated an easy task to govern the area of the 

 United States covering about 3000 by 2500 miles and filled 

 with a heterogeneous human aggregate of one hundred millions 

 such as the world has never before had equaled. But it would 

 be impolite to suggest that one emperor, king, or president 

 could govern Europe that is about 1200 by 1200 miles in expanse. 

 Only when the European peoples resolve, by a decided majority 

 vote that is persistently upheld, on establishing a similar degree 

 of supervision, will the feasibility of it be seriously considered. 



(7) But, of all the influences — environal stimuli to use a more 

 exact term — that have been at work during the past century 

 for bringing about an international comity and peace, we would 

 reckon, as by far the most powerful, the action of higher Christ- 

 ian missions as exemplified in the lives of the great majority 

 of the missionaries; in the schools, colleges, and hospitals that 

 they and their supporters have upheld; as well as in the more 

 elevated — often immensely improved — lives that their con- 

 verts have lived in midst of fearful odds against them. But 

 to those who measure human existence from the lower cogitic 

 and the cognitic — from the hard mental and the sensuous 

 standpoints — Christian missions have been a hypocrisy or a 

 failure. For those however who can disinterestedly watch 

 the beat of humanity's pulse, and the swing of the human 

 pendulum the world over, these have humanized, socialized, 

 elevated, and enormously advanced every nation into whose 

 midst they have come. 



Naturally we would exempt here every "missionary" sys- 

 tem that has attempted to use its religious message and appeal 



