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scribed. Language, commerce, education, the industries, 

 arts, sciences, law, religion, medicine and the entire 

 social order have come forth and grown up from it. 

 Mails, transportation, telegraphy and telephones are adap- 

 tations and inventions to effect a larger intercourse. In 

 fact, the means and facilities for communication are now 

 ample. It is not lack of these which delays the progress 

 of humanity. A most rapid advance is possible. The 

 obstacle to progress is the lack of the spirit of cooperation, 

 lack of confidence and good-will, lack of understanding of 

 the real situation. Instead of this essential good-will 

 there is suspicion, envy and hatred, which pave the way 

 to violent acts, war and destruction of the hard-earned 

 fruits of labor. 



It is the same ancient dislike of self-sacrifice seen in the 

 protozoon, which so long delayed metazoic life ; the 

 same unbelief that the merging of self in the community 

 will redound to the benefit of the individual ; the same 

 reluctance to work for the common weal ; the same self- 

 love that makes so many millions of our fellows unwilling 

 to share and share alike with others, blinded to the fact 

 that their greater happiness lies in just that act of self- 

 surrender! Blind, too, to that other greater fact, that 

 along this line of self-sacrifice and cooperation alone lies 

 salvation from disease and death. This is the Way. 



Just as the cells unite their lives and work together for 

 the common good, so must the citizens of a nation or 



