Let us not be deceived!  It is in ourselves that the weakness is.  It is in ourselves that the real fight must take place between the Old and the New.  It is because we ourselves value our miserable lives, because we ourselves cling to the old fears and kneel still before the old idols, that the Thought still remains a thought only, that it does not create the New Order which will make of this weary world a Paradise indeed.

Neither ballots nor bullets will avail us unless we strive of ourselves to be men, to be worthier to be the dwelling houses of this Thought of which even the dream is filling the world with madness divine.  To curb our own tongues, to soften our own hearts, to be sober ourselves, to be virtuous ourselves, to trust each other—­at least to try—­this we must do before we can justly expect of others that they should do it.  Without hypocrisy, knowing how we all fall far short of the ideal, we must ourselves first cease to be utterly slaves of our own weaknesses.

THE END