Let us see to it that we shall be found worthy.
VI That we be found worthy; let this be borne in mind.

For it is true that here only is our great danger.

If with our freedom to win, our country to open up, our future to develop, we learn no lesson from the mistakes of nations and live no better life than the great Powers, we shall have missed a golden opportunity, and shall be one of the failures of history.

So far, on superficial judgment, we have been accounted a failure; though the simple maintenance of our fight for centuries has been in itself a splendid triumph.

But then only would we have failed in the great sense, when we had got our field and wasted it, as the nations around us waste theirs to-day.