PREFACE ix 



other nations. On the contrary, they are but 

 the beginning of a new world order when neither 

 differences of speech, nor of race, nor of creed 

 shall longer be permitted to sow dissension 

 among civilized men, or to arouse human pas 

 sion to an extent where human reason cannot 

 control it and direct it toward the goal of jus 

 tice, of human sympathy, and of a peace which 

 is lasting because it rests upon a secure eco 

 nomic and ethical foundation. 



NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. 



COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 

 June 4, 1914. 



