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given to them understanding in place of the bludgeons 

 of ignorance. The disciples of physical and intellec- 

 tual dominion thereby unconsciously fashioned the 

 means to their own destruction, and raised mankind 

 to a higher level of equality in social opportunity, in 

 offensive and defensive power. 



The ability to move the masses to united purposeful 

 action vanished when these time-honored leaders lost 

 their authority. They fell from their physical and 

 mental supremacy to the levels of the rank and file, 

 because they no longer inspired a compelling fear of 

 their power to destroy, nor an abiding faith in their 

 power to save. 



To construct and control the exacting machinery of 

 modern social life, and of modern warfare, demands 

 long and careful training, and the exercise of the high- 

 est intellectual faculties by a large number of individ- 

 uals. But these mental attributes are the very ones 

 which enable men to visualize with greater clearness 

 the horrors and futility of war, thus compelling them 

 to cooperate with one another in their common inter- 

 ests, rather than fight one another to their common 

 disadvantage. 



The growth of these mutually nullifying factors 

 automatically inhibits the development of any compre- 

 hensive system of mental and physical dominion, and 

 will ultimately reduce the danger from great interna- 

 tional wars to the vanishing point. For you cannot 

 educate men to the command of physical forces, and 

 at the same time make them insensible to moral forces. 

 A time must inevitably come when there will be no 

 motive sufficiently strong to mobilize these growing 

 intellectual powers for purposes of destruction. Either 



