"All that water," as he now wrote, "has flowed over the dam." Occasionally his mind would revert to the dreadful period of "neutrality," but in the main his activities, mental and physical, were devoted to the future.

A letter addressed to his son Arthur shows how quickly and how sympathetically he was adjusting himself to the new prospect.

His mind was now occupied with ships, food, armies, warfare on submarines, and the approaching resettlement of the world.

How completely he foresaw the part that the United States must play in the actual waging of hostilities, and to what an extent he himself was responsible for the policies that ultimately prevailed, appears in this letter: _To Arthur W.Page_ 25 March, 1917, London.
DEAR ARTHUR: It's very hard, not to say impossible, to write in these swiftly moving days.

Anything written to-day is out of date to-morrow--even if it be not wrong to start with.