33/106 We have gone on for 100 years working might and main to better our condition and the condition of people about us--the greatest effort made by the largest number of people since the world began to further the mood and the arts of peace. There is no other such chapter in human history as our work for a hundred years. Yet just a hundred years ago the Capitol at Washington was burned by--a political oligarchy in the freest country of Europe--as damnable an atrocity as you will find in history. The Germans are a hundred years behind the English in political development and political morality. |