MIA OL It is clear that if a world-league is to be living and enduring, the idea of it, and the need and righteousness of its service, must. be taught by every educational system in the world. It must either be served by, or be in conflict with, every religious organization; it must come into the life of everyone, not to release men and women from loyalty, but to demand it for itself. The answer to this criticism that the world-peace will release men from service is, therefore, that the world-peace is itself a service. It calls, not as war does for the deaths, but for that greater gift, the lives, of men. The League of Nations cannot be a little thing: it is either to be a great thing in the world, an overriding. idea of a greater state, or nothing. Every state aims ultimately at the production of a sort of man, and it is an idle and a wasteful diplomacy, a pandering to timidities and shams, to pretend that the World-League of Nations is not ultimately a state aiming at that ennobled individual whose city is the world. |