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debated questions from the point of sight of
our adversaries, to take account of their
reasonable aspirations, to make allowance for their
difficulties, even to consider how they can best
render their appropriate service to the race,
while we strive no less resolutely to keep or to
secure the power of fulfilling our own. We
could not regard our enemies as our
grandfathers regarded theirs. Already the conviction
begins to make itself felt that the loss of one
people is the loss of all.
Meanwhile the growth of popular power and
popular responsibility brings a wider and more
collective judgment to bear upon national
questions. The masses of peoples have more
in common than their leaders, among whom
individual character has fuller development.
The average opinion of men, when the facts
are set forth, responds to pleas of fellowship
and righteousness, and tends to become
dominant.
Such influences in favour of international
Peace spring out of steady movements which,
as they continue, will increase them. The past
does not limit their power, but simply reveals
the line of their action. Above all, they
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