124 Social Environment 



money empires of the present. Yet the brute 

 force and cunning that forever triumph prove 

 on investigation to be a derivative of the in- 

 w^ard spiritual strength of social organization 

 — a statement that is more than ever true 

 today. 



In the inevitable clash of international inter- 

 ests the nation which evolves the best ordered 

 cooperation, appealing to the loyalty of its 

 people and maturing their serviceable talents, 

 insures the industrial ability upon which war- 

 like strength no less than peaceful prosperity 

 depends. The nation that succeeds best in 

 achieving that vital democratic cooperation 

 which is the essence of Christian idealism will, 

 in the event of war, have the added strength of 

 appealing to the popular interests as against 

 the aristocratic strength of opposing nations, 

 thus paralyzing resistance as did the French 

 armies in the early days of the Napoleonic 

 wars. So in the future as in the past the dice 

 of the gods will be loaded in favor of social 

 organization, and the class and national con- 

 flicts of the present day must eventually issue 

 into the broad ocean of world socialization, in 

 which freedom will have become harmonized 

 in law. Taking the long view, we may learn 



