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the advancing plane of Kultur; if we are to believe the Teuton, 
they and others like them are justifiable and right. But the 
world remains unconvinced and asks: “Has all the struggle of 
the ages been only for the purpose of bringing us at last to a 
material civilization that has in it all the elements of moral 
barbarism ?” 
There were three great bonds that men had hoped would hold 
the Western world together and that should have operated 
against the break of 1914. The first of these was the interna- 
tionalization of labor. How big and mighty this seemed to us 
just before the war! How well we remember the threatened 
strike at Paris against the war declaration itself. How well 
we remember, too, the boasting of the labor leaders of Western 
Europe that they had the power to hold the working classes 
together against the efforts of chancellors and premiers to 
bring about a general war. With what assurance public speak- 
ers told us of the impossibility of world strife because the 
world’s labor interests would not produce the sinews of war. 
On that thin, negatve reed men leaned for support, then 
wondered that it failed them. Yet every one who wished might 
have known that for years German factories were making 
munitions one month out of every year and were at all times 
ready to go upon a complete war basis. What reason had labor 
to expect that the munitions it helped to make for the Prussian 
war lords would never be used by those lords for their own sin- 
ister purpose? Even as war broke out, it seems to us, German 
labor might have saved the day had it felt the pull of interna- 
tional gravitation. But instead it felt the stronger, closer, 
centripetal whirl of the national Kultur. Like Lee in ’61 it 
turned aside from the greater, newer union to respond to the 
old appeal of a native state. Does America now believe, or 
must she still be taught, that we may not depend, for a long 
time yet, upon the negative weapon of an international strike 
to keep us out of war? 
A second great bond that men hoped would hold the nations 
together is their common religion. Nothing has so indicated 
the growth of real Christianity as the enlarging meaning of . 
that exclamation of Peter’s; “Of a truth I perceive that God is 
no respector of persons (or nations). And, conversely, noth- 
