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war, against the interpretation of the great principles which has hitherto 

 directed us, to continue to desei've universal adherence. The outlook is 

 yet clouded. Will the present individuaHstic point of view continue, or 

 are we but being carried through a transition phase until the coming 

 of a new rallying cry which will restate the brotherhood of man in 

 some new and captivating form? However that may be, our course 

 seems clear : it is to develop the intelligence and the spirit of social 

 service in our whole population in complete confidence that the solidity 

 of the English character fortified with such weapons will maintain and 

 expand that civilisation which has brought us so far, and which we 

 owe it to posterity to hand on not only unimpaired, but broadened and 

 deepened by new streams of thought and action. It is in this sense that 

 the spread of educational advantages is the hope of all, and that I 

 have made this appeal for all educational and social forces to concen- 

 trate in one national effort. In the words of one of our greatest poets : 



Give all thou canst — high Heaven rejects the lore 

 Of nicely calculated less or more. 



