their hands by removing a certain driving bitterness that gives strength to their fight.  Whatever it removes it will not be their strength.  In a war admittedly between brothers, a civil war, where different conceptions of duty force men asunder, father is up against son, and brother against brother; yet they are not weakened in their contest by ties of blood and the deeper-lying harmony of things that in happier times prevail to the exclusion of bitterness and hate.  When, therefore, you teach a man his enemy is in a deep sense his brother, you do not draw him from the fight, but you give him a new conception of the goal to win and with a great dream inspire him to persevere and reach the goal.

VI

If, then, beyond individual and national freedom there is this great dream still to be striven for, let us not decry it as something too sublime for earth.  It must be our guiding star to lead us rightly as far as we may go.  We can travel rightly that part of the road we now tread on only by shaping it true to the great end that ought to inspire us all.  We shall have many temptations to swerve aside, but the power of mind that keeps our position clear and firm will react against every destroying influence.  In the first stage of the fight for internal unity, when blind bigotry is furiously insisting that we but plan an insidious scheme for the oppression of a minority, our firmness will save us till our conception of the end grow on that minority and convince all of our earnestness.  Then the dream will inspire them, the flag will claim them, and the first stage in the fight will be won.  When internal unity is accomplished, we are within reach of freedom.  Yes, but cries an objector, “Why plead for friendship with England, who will have peace only on condition of her supremacy?” And an answer is needed.  If it takes two to make a fight, it also most certainly takes two to make a peace, unless one accepts the position of serf and surrenders.  But this we do not fear; we can compel our freedom and we are confident of victory.  There is still the step to friendship.  Many will be baffled by the difficulty, that while we must keep alive our generous instincts, we must be stern and resolute in the fight; while we desire peace we must prosecute war; while we long for comradeship we must be breaking up dangerous alliances:  literary, political, trades and social unions formed with England while she is asserting her supremacy must be broken up till they can be reformed on a basis of independence, equality and universal freedom.  While we are prosecuting these vigorous measures it may not seem the way to final friendship; but we must persist; independence is first indispensable.  Here again, however, while insisting among our own ranks on our conception of the end, it will grow on the mind of the enemy.  They may put it by at first as a delusion or a snare, but one intimate moment will come when