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an inch of free ground to set one’s foot upon.
Many people thought over the significance of
this picture; they thought how in economic
and in actual warfare all the lower
passions of man were still aroused; how despite
all the tremendous development of civilisation
in the century just passed, man had not yet
succeeded in giving to the struggle for
existence nobler forms. Certainly to the question
why this still is so, very different answers were
given. Some contented themselves with
declaring, after consideration, that things must
remain just as they are, since human nature
remains the same; that hunger, the
propagation of the race, the desire for gold and power,
will always control the course of the world.
Others again were convinced that if the
teaching which has tried in vain for nineteen
hundred years to transform the course of the world
could one day become a living reality in the
souls of men, swords would be turned into
pruning hooks.
My conviction is just the opposite. It is
that nothing will be different in the mass
except in so far as human nature itself is
transformed, and that this transformation will take
place, not when the whole of humanity
becomes Christian, but when the whole of
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