128 THE FUTURE 



bureaucracy, from the oppression of the individual 

 tyrant, and of the collective tyrant — the giant 

 combine. 



For most of these objects we are now fighting. 

 When peace comes shall we not organise to maintain 

 our ideals ? Even if we come out of this War 

 gloriously victorious, this in itself will not be suffi- 

 cient to guarantee the maintenance and develop- 

 ment of our ideals. We shall have to organise our 

 Empire. 



First of all, we shall have so to organise our 

 people at home that the standard of comfort and 

 intelligence shall be as high as it is in our sister 

 nations, for, as George Meredith said : " We must 

 have an Imperial people at home." 



And just as it is necessary to organise the indi- 

 viduals for the good of the community, so it will 

 be necessary to organise our sister nations for the 

 good of the Empire, and so at the same time secure 

 their own full national self-expression. 



Sacrifices will have to be made, for sacrifice is 

 necessary in the Nation's life as it is in the life of 

 the individual. But the ideal for which we shall 

 make those sacrifices is the Empire, spiritual and 

 tangible — self-supporting and self-contained — built 

 up of free men and free nations, and inviolate as 

 long as Right shall be our Might. 



