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of the mind" there are to be conditions of life on the globe which the 

 old world never experienced and which will put in the crucible of 

 sorrow, suffering and toil all the old conceptions, except those of 

 right and wrong, by which the world guided itself in the past. 



It will, indeed, be a new world and a new age in which all the 

 shibboleths will be discarded and mankind will see things as they 

 are. Free trade and protection, the laissez-faire doctrine, indi- 

 vidualism, socialism, collectivism, all the old creeds and counter- 

 creeds will be only memories of the past because the conditions to 

 be will refuse to be solved by doctrinaires and idealists. The colossal 

 debt which each of the nations must carry, not to speak of what will be 

 required for the restoration of the old order in the districts devastated 

 by the Germans, will compel the adoption of new policies and of new 

 methods to enable them to carry their staggering loads. Great 

 Britain's debt of £5,000,000,000 must be paid, principal and interest, 

 and this, will involve a resort to resources and methods which have 

 never hitherto been tested and not even contemplated to that end. 



Germany, it is hinted in official sources in Berlin, is already plan- 

 ning to nationalize all her industries and it is proposed that the German 

 state only shall for the nation export and import, in other words, 

 buy and sell abroad for its own people. In this way she might hope 

 eventually to pay her debt. The nation would thus become a gigantic 

 bartering organization, seeking to increase its resources at the 

 expense of its neighbours who would thus be compelled to recast all 

 their methods for dealing with foreign competition. Whether this 

 ultra-revolutionary proposal will be adopted remains to be seen. 



Already extraordinary measures are being taken in Germany 

 to replace the life wasted in the war. A German statistician has 

 stated that during the last three years there have been three million 

 illegitimate births in that country, and the authorities have made 

 such provision for these and those which will be added to the number 

 as will inevitably encourage a continuation of this factor after the 

 war on a large scale. This will not be without its effect on the rest 

 of the world. There can be no violation of a widely recognized moral 

 convention in one nation, without disturbance in the equilibrium 

 elsewhere, especially since the female part of the population in Eng- 

 land, France, and Italy, which was in excess of the male before 1914, 

 will, because of the slaughter on the battlefields and in the trenches, 

 exceed by as many millions more the males in those nations. Here 

 will be a factor which will exert an enormous influence on the social 

 order. 



What the other nations will do to enable them to carry their 

 burdens and to meet the new conditions which will obtain after the 



