Let us beware, therefore, at this moment, of anything savouring of self-righteousness.
"Some of us," says Bishop Gore, "see the chief security" against this disease which has infected our civilisation "in the progress of Democracy--the government of the people really by the people and for the people.

I am one of those who believe this and desire to serve towards the realising of this end.

But the answer does not satisfy me.

I do not know what evils we might find arising from a world of materialistic democracies.
But I am sure we shall not banish the evil spirits which destroy human lives and nations and civilisations by any mere change in the methods of government.

Nothing can save civilisation except a new spirit in the nations." The task before Europe, then, is a double one--a task of development and construction in the region of politics, and of purification and conversion in the region of the spirit.