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does come which raises a conflict between these motives, I anticipate 
that the national feeling' will be predominant. In other words there 
is a very definite barrier to socialism which cannot be lifted until the 
spirit of national individuality shall have had the opportunity to get 
itself entirely free from any coercion which attempts to crush it. I 
am convinced that any people that shows this spirit manifests desirable 
elements of character, and the time is not far off when the rulers of 
the world will realize that the way io arouse it is to try to crush it. 
When the group shall find no restraint whatever upon it as a group, 
then the brotherhood idea of socialism stands a good chance of en- 
circling the earth, but in the meantime, the human soul in its common 
life feels that it must be assured of its own identity. 
To these illustrations I have given, enough more could be added to 
prove that it is a world movement. Hungary is just becoming conscious 
of itself. India is teaming with nationalism. The history of Ireland 
has been a continuous struggle for the same thing, and the reciprocity 
treaty was repudiated by Canada for the same reason. My sympathy is 
with socialism, but the coming of the great day must wait upon the 
nature of man. 
Olivet College. 
