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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



A NEW ORDER 01? WARRIORS WILL FARE 

 FORTH 



When the war ends, and a stable peace, 

 based upon government only by "the con- 

 sent of the governed," has everywhere 

 been established, the men who will sail 

 the seas will neither go on voyages of 

 conquest nor for the exploitation of 

 peoples of other nations. They will be 

 true knights, not going forth with that 

 romantic chivalry which lacked practical 

 knowledge and science. 



These knights of our new day will 

 be fired not with less noble purpose, but 

 with more seasoned and practical ideals 

 than those celebrated\in Song and story. 

 These adventurous spirits will indeed ride 

 abroad to redress wrongs, but they will 

 not carry sword and spear or be ham- 

 pered with mail and burdened with clank- 

 ing armor. 



They will be, first of all, men of the 

 sea, who, noting the toll of human life 

 exacted by ignorance of winds, and 

 currents, and ocean paths, and harbors, 

 will make safe the navigation of all the 

 waters of the earth. Their weapons will 

 be charts, and compasses, and* buoys, and 

 signals, and lighthouses, to the end that 

 men who "go down to the sea in ships" 

 may do so in safety from any hidden 

 rock or treacherous shoal. They will 

 study the life of Maury and his charts. 

 They will consecrate their lives to his 

 spirit of shortening ocean traffic and les- 

 sening dangers to navigation by the em- 

 ployment of every agency science and 

 study and experience afloat may make 

 available. 



But safe navigation with these modern 

 knights of sea communication will be only 

 the ends to the larger means, for they will 

 utilize these pathways of the seas for the 

 interchange of products and ideas that 

 will make the people of the whole, world 

 partners in all that man has made and all 

 that man has learned. 



National lines will indeed remain, and 

 love of homeland still grip the hearts of 

 men of varying climes and different 

 tongues. The tower of Babel will not be 

 torn down. We will not return to one 

 Volapiik. No knight-errantry will seek 

 to compel men to speak the same lan- 

 guage, and thereby lose to the world the 



folk-lore, the traditions, the literature 

 that mark the growth and illustrate the 

 life of every nation. 



LINES OF NATIONAL SUSPICION TO BE 

 OBLITERATED 



But lines of national suspicion and dis- 

 trust of other nations will be obliterated, 

 as these new knights convince all to 

 whom they carry their faith and their 

 wares that no selfish ends tarnish their 

 invisible armor, and that their mission is 

 one of hastening the sway of universal 

 brotherhood based upon universal justice. 



These modern knights of enduring 

 peace will be no mere dreamers. They 

 will not expect all of a sudden that the 

 selfishness of human nature will be erad- 

 icated by raising the wand and saying, 

 "Be thou gone." They will recognize that 

 justice alone will usher in the new era 

 for which they have put on their armor, 

 and their creed will be that the man who 

 would have equity must do equity, and 

 their religion will be that of the Man of 

 Galilee, who said: "Whosoever will be 

 chief among you, let him be your serv- 

 ant." 



So that, as our modern Knight of the 

 New Era of Peace carries his cargoes to 

 the isles of the sea, he will open new 

 doors of trade by a traffic that seeks no 

 unfair advantage, giving from his coun- 

 try in fair exchange what is needed by 

 the country with which he trades. 



But he will recognize that, no matter 

 how peaceful is his mission, or how hon- 

 orable his purpose, or how unsullied his 

 knighthood, the same spirit may not at 

 first be found in those with whom he 

 trades and visits. He will be warned by 

 Mark Twain's story of the bad man, 

 Slade, on the western frontier. 



SLADES AMONG THE NATIONS 



In a sudden quarrel with Slade, a big 

 teamster drew his gun first and "had the 

 drop" on the bad man. Slade laughed 

 and said : "Ah, throw your gun away and 

 let's fight it out with our fists." The 

 angry giant then threw away his weapon 

 and started for Slade to give him a good 

 beating. Slade drew his gun and shot 

 the big simpleton through the heart. 



There are Slades among nations, and 

 when a militant enemy says, "Let us have 



