EACH FOR ITS OWN SAKE 



In all the vast stretch of geologic and biologic 

 time, do we see any evidence of the active existence 

 of the God and the Devil of our fathers? Not unless 

 we identify them with the material forces that then 

 ruled and shaped the world, and these forces, by any 

 other name, are of the same impersonal, impartial, 

 unforgiving character as is disclosed in our dealings 

 with them to-day. 



When we turn to the higher forms of organic life, 

 especially to man and his history, what do we see? 

 We still behold the same trial-and-error method, 

 the same cruelty, waste, delays, and suffering that 

 we behold in the lower forms. We see progress, we 

 see the growth of ethical principles, we see man's 

 increasing mastery over the forces of nature and 

 over himself, but in the competition of races and na- 

 tions, the race is still to the swift and the battle to 

 the strong. We see a high standard of individual 

 morality contending with a low standard of interna- 

 tional morality. We still see civilized nations look- 

 ing upon treaties as "scraps of paper"; we see them 

 regarding their neighbors as rivals and enemies; we 

 see millions of men that have not the shadow of 

 a grievance against one another, fiercely trying to 

 slay one another, and praying to the same God for 

 victory. We see the nefarious doctrine that physical 

 might makes moral right written in lines of blood 

 and fire across the face of whole kingdoms; we see 

 the legitimate competitions of peace and industry 



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