Only by gradual degrees may an attitude be
brought about within the national communities
which will be more just to the outside world and
to everything that is strange and unaccustomed.
What the great imaginative writers of the first
half of the nineteenth century accomplished in
breaking down social prejudices and abuses will
have to be done for humanity by a new host of
inspired molders of human sentiment. We may
not get rid of artificial hostilities now still nur-
tured by nationalism, until ideals of international
goodwill and fellowship have been expressed in
the form of human experience and portrayed as
part of the struggles and triumphs of the indi-
vidual human soul. Patient, sound, upbuilding
influences shall have to work powerfully on the
masses of men, and on their leaders, before we
may finally overcome the evils that express them-
selves in practices inherent in a system such as
that we call ' ' secret diplomacy, ' ' before the world
may be made an abode of mutual confidence and
helpfulness instead of a house of imprisonment,
suspicion and terror.
