Despite the fundamental commercialism of the age, national spirit is growing more intense, the present war being the main intensifying cause.

It is true that the interests of commerce are in many ways antagonistic to those of war.

But, on the other hand, of all the causes that occasion war the economic causes are the greatest.

For no thing will men fight more savagely than for money; for no thing have men fought more savagely than for money; and the greater the rivalry, the more the man's life becomes devoted to it, and the more fiercely he will fight to get or keep it.

Surely of all the means by which we hope to avoid war, the most hopeless by far is commerce.
The greatest of all hopes is in Christianity, because of its inculcation of love and kindliness, its obvious influence on the individual in cultivating unselfishness and other peaceful virtues, and the fact that it is an inspiration from on high, and therefore a force external to mankind.