556 ALEXANDER PEDLER LECTURE 



definitely encourage humanity as an alternative to brutality, and extol 

 principles above, opportunism. Perhaps some day even financiers and 

 statesmen may discover that their choice is between the Mammon of 

 deceit and animal avarice and the God of truth and human sympathy, 

 and that there is no middle course. Until then they will continue to 

 lead their dependents and subjects along the well-worn track that opens 

 before all the ' beasts that perish.' 



The alternative is a great adventure, whose end none can foresee, 

 along the trail blazed by martyred pioneers who have had the courage 

 to be men. 



