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 it will light up for them, and a new era is begun.

In such a moment is evil abandoned, hate buried and friendship reborn.

There is one honest fear that our independence would threaten their security: it will yet be replaced by the conviction that there is a surer safeguard in our freedom than in our suppression; the light will break through the clouds of suspicion and a star of stars will glorify the earth.

For this end our enemy must have an ideal as high as our own; if thus an objector, he is right.