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throughout the world, as the religion of universal 

 peace. It is essentially, among all religions, the 

 religion of brotherhood, of love, of goodwill among 

 men. It proclaims these conditions uncompro- 

 misingly as universal, as operative beyond the 

 boundaries of all creeds, and as extending even to 

 enemies. It recognizes neither race nor colour nor 

 nationality in the presence of the all-subordinat- 

 ing ideals which it uplifts. The essence of these 

 ideals, as it was recently described with great 

 insight and accuracy in a leading article in the 

 Times, is the fact of what was apparently the most 

 complete and terrible of world failures becoming, 

 because of that apparent failure and only through 

 it, the most incredible triumph over all the powers 

 of the world. 1 



Yet the result, if it could only be seen by a mind 

 absolutely free from the prepossessions in which we 

 are steeped, is one which would stagger the imagina- 

 tion. The terrible dominating heredity of the fight 

 inborn in the West has made of this ideal through- 

 out history a cause of blood and war and of world- 

 embracing conflict. The unfolding of the Christian 

 religion in the West has been a record of lighting 

 and slaughter aiming at worldly triumph which is 

 absolutely unparalleled in any other phase of the 



1 Times, 21 March 1913. 



