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Britain. They praise a morale that makes possible a century 
of peace on an unfortified boundary line that stretches from 
the St. Lawrence to Puget Sound, three thousand miles long. 
Such a morale would doubtless aid France and Germany in 
the preservation of peace between themselves and in the world. 
For a nation’s greatness is not in the extent of her territories 
nor the material wealth of her citizens, but in the stress she 
puts on the making and maintenance of agencies thru which 
her citizens may develop their talents and use them to serve 
one another. The force of nationality must be spiritualized. 
A public opinion educated to this truth will finally check- 
mate the force which has been the most powerful in the his- 
tory of Western Europe — a force almost fifteen centures old 
and whose chief activity has been the building of empires 
out of separate states and the breaking down of empires to 
make new alignments. 
