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Religious Instruction 311
in great vital questions common to all. But
militarism and clericalism oppress freedom by
the principles of authority, oppress the idea of
individual development, by that of discipline,
oppress the feeling of common weal by the
desire for glory and war, oppress the feeling
for right by the feeling for military honour.
In Germany under the badge of Christianity
and militarism, the civil rights of the citizen,
his claims for social freedom, have been seri-
ously menaced. Hypnotised by these prin-
ciples many members of the Russian, French,
and English nations, respectable as they are
individually, have gloated over the deeds of
unrighteousness committed by their respective
governments.
All this will go on; people will continue to
be burdened to the ground by ever increasing
military preparations. The rights of the
small nations will be constantly encroached
upon by the larger ones, even after the present
world powers, like those that have preceded
them, have broken down under the burden of
their own expansion. It will continue to be
so, until mothers implant in the souls of their
children the feeling for humanity before the
feeling for their country; until they strive to
expand the sympathies of their children to
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