But for the huge economic waste, the waste of money and material and accumulated plant, caused by the struggle, there _is_ some comfort, in this development of faculty, this pushing forward of human knowledge into regions hitherto unmapped, which the war has seen.

This week, for instance,[13] American and British airmen are competing in the first Atlantic flight, and the whole world is looking on.

Again there is risk of danger and death, but the prizes sought are now the prizes of peace, the closer brotherhood of men, a truer knowledge one of another, the interchanges of science and labour; and they are sought by means taught in the furnace of war.

Thus, from the sacrifices of the terrible past may spring a quickened life for the new world.

Will that new world be worthy of them ?--there is the question on which all depends.