Yes!--but men and women are no mere idle spectators of a destiny imposed on them, as the Greeks sometimes, but only sometimes, believed.

They themselves _make_ the future.

If Europe wants the League of Nations, and the end of war, each one of us must turn to, _and work_, each in our own way.

Since the day of the first Conference resolution, the great scheme, like some veiled Alcestis, has come a good deal further down the stage of the world.

There it stands while we debate; as Thanatos and Heracles fought over the veiled queen.