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vocably into another world. He can never free 

 himself from the influence of that internal standard 

 which has been set up within him. It will pursue 

 him to the end. Thompson invoked it as the Hound 

 of Heaven. " I fled him," he groaned in his 

 anguish, " down the nights and down the days, I 

 fled him down the arches of the years, I fled him 

 down the labyrinthine ways of my own mind/' 

 But in vain ! Never can the individual escape 

 the pursuer, never can he revert to be the man 

 he would otherwise have become. Even the 

 lowest and meanest individual is in such circum- 

 stances capable of the most surprising degree of 

 sacrifice before he will prove entirely unfaithful to 

 that unseen internal standard which he carries in 

 his inner mind. 



This miracle takes place around us in the world 

 on a universal scale in every generation. There is 

 no way the human mind can conceive in which war 

 can be abolished amongst nations except by a 

 similar miracle. Universal peace can only be 

 secured in one way by raising the mind of civiliza- 

 tion, through the emotion of the ideal conveyed to 

 the rising generation by the collective inheritance, 

 to a plane where the barbarism of war would be 

 so abhorrent to it that the degradation of engaging 

 in it would take away from a people that principal 



