76 CREATIVE INVOLUTION 



to be achieved through the doing away with natural 

 boundaries, but has to come through the harmony 

 of many nations joined in " native contemplation of 

 the same ideal." And first these have to attain to 

 self-definition through struggle and conflict, for such 

 is the evolution of the moral order, whatever the 

 elements constituting it. 



" A SHADOW MOCKING A REALITY WHOSE TRUTH 

 AVAILS NOT WHOLLY TO DISPERSE THE FLITTING MIMIC 

 CALLED UP BY ITSELF, AND SO REMAINS PERPLEXED 

 AND NIGH PUT OUT BY ITS FANTASTIC FELLOW'S 

 WAVERING GLEAM." 



The Great War has been ascribed to the failure of 

 Christianity ; it were truer to say, paradoxical as it 

 may seem, that this war could not have come about 

 unless Christianity had succeeded of its purpose. 

 That national integrity obtains in the present 

 cataclysm denotes a higher degree of self-abnegation 

 and personal sacrifice than the world has hitherto 

 known. A loyalty sufficiently powerful to inspire 

 great masses of individuals to give their lives without 

 hope of personal gain or sense of national wrong, 

 must needs be imbued with the spirit of a religious 

 movement. Such unity of action as we are witness- 

 ing is possible only if the community of feeling is 

 that of Christian brotherhood. The patriotism of 



