not see by what divine right men from the West suppose that they have the only correct ancestry or by what conceit they presume to have the only true faith.  Let them but be accepted, however, let a nation be led by them as guiding-stars, and England becomes justified in forcing her system upon India, she finds it necessary to send missionaries to Japan, and the lion’s paw pounces upon the very islands of the sea.

The whole world, however, is now rising as never before against any semblance of selfishness on the part of great powers, and it is more than ever clear that before there can be any genuine progress toward the brotherhood of man, or toward comity among nations, one man will have to give some consideration to the other man’s point of view.  One people will have to respect another people’s tradition.  The Russo-Japanese War gave men a new vision.  The whole world gazed upon a new power in the East—­one that could be dealt with only upon equal terms.  Meanwhile there was unrest in India, and in Africa there were insurrections of increasing bitterness and fierceness.  Africa especially had been misrepresented.  The people were all said to be savages and cannibals, almost hopelessly degraded.  The traders and the politicians knew better.  They knew that there were tribes and tribes in Africa, that many of the chiefs were upright and wise and proud of their tradition, and that the land could not be seized any too quickly.  Hence they made haste to get into the game.

It is increasingly evident also that the real leadership of the world is a matter not of race, not even of professed religion, but of principle.  Within the last hundred years, as science has flourished and colonization grown, we have been led astray by materialism.  The worship of the dollar has become a fetish, and the man or the nation that had the money felt that it was ordained of God to rule the universe.  Germany was led astray by this belief, but it is England, not Germany, that has most thoroughly mastered the Art of Colonization.  Crown colonies are to be operated in the interest of the owners.  Jingoism is king.  It matters not that the people in India and Africa, in Hayti and the Philippines, object to our benevolence; we know what is good for them and therefore they should be satisfied.

In Jamaica to-day the poorer people can not get employment; and yet, rather than accept the supply at hand, the powers of privilege import “coolie” labor, a still cheaper supply.  In Sierra Leone, where certainly there has been time to see the working of the principle, native young men crowd about the wharves and seize any chance to earn a penny, simply because there is no work at hand to do—­nothing that would genuinely nourish independence and self-respect.

It is not strange that the worship of industrialism, with its attendant competition, finally brought about the most disastrous war in history and such a breakdown of all principles of morality as made the whole world stand aghast.  Womanhood was no longer sacred; old ideas of ethics vanished; Christ himself was crucified again—­everything holy and lovely was given to the grasping demon of Wealth.