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be used by others in the future. The internal dis- 

 content of Germany is a menace to the peace of Europe 

 in that the Kaiser may find it necessary to provoke 

 hostilities in order to arouse the patriotic fervour of his 

 subjects, and thus evade revolution temporarily, with- 

 drawing attention from their own misgovernment. 

 For it is to misgovern when the interests of the 

 people of a great nation are sacrificed to military 

 aggrandisement and power. 



The influence of Christian altruism, under the law of 

 righteousness of the Eternal, is evidenced with greater 

 potency in our own country than in any other, and will 

 insist from day to day upon the progressive betterment 

 of society, which alone can and does give permanence 

 to our civilisation. In the words of Benjamin Kidd, 

 already quoted, " Society is evolving religious char- 

 acter as a first product, and intellectual capacity only 

 so far as it can be associated with this quality," and 

 the most distinctive feature of human evolution as 

 a whole is that through the operation upon men's 

 minds of the self-denying ordinances and teachings 

 of Jesus the race must continue to grow ever more 

 and more religious. 



A scroll of heroes to be displayed in all our schools, 

 so that the youth may know the men who in the past 

 have done most to advance the State in all lines of 

 noble thought and enterprise. The teaching of all 

 history ought to cluster round such names. 



The legal system must eventually be merged in the 

 Civil Service. All cases presented will receive con- 

 sideration in an outer Court as to whether they are un- 

 deserving of trial on account of such faults as triviality 

 or mere litigiousness. The latter would require careful 

 repression, as it would tend towards the abuse of the 

 legal instrument. One judgment to be final in all 

 cases ; barristers to be civil servants, paid by Govern- 



