In Peace 



destroy those who are filled with re- 

 ligious zeal, nor those whose religious 

 zeal takes a form not approved by tradi- 

 tion nor by consent of the masses. All 

 movements toward social and religious 

 reform are signs of individual initiative 

 and individual force. The country 

 which stamps out individuality will soon 

 live in the mass alone. 



A French writer has claimed that the 

 decay of religious spirit in France is 

 connected with the growth of religious 

 orders of which celibacy is a prominent 

 feature. If religious men and women 

 leave no descendants, their own spirit, at 

 least, will fail of inheritance. A people 

 careless of religion inherit this trait from 

 equally careless ancestors. 



Indiscriminate charity has been a 

 fruitful cause of the survival of the 

 unfit. To kill the strong and to feed 

 the weak is to provide for a progeny of 

 weakness. It is a French writer, again, 



