Some Gains of the War; An Address to the Royal Colonial Institute
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It is visible to other eyes than ours. Some time ago I heard an address given by a friend of mine, an Indian Mohammedan of warrior descent, to Univer- sity students of his own faith. He was urging on them the futility of dreams and the necessity of self-disci- pline and self-devotion. 'Why do the people of this country', he said, 'count for so much all the world over ? It is not because of their dreams ; it is because thousands of them are lying at the bottom of the sea. ' Further, we have not ...only found ourselves ; we have found one another. A new kindliness has grown up, during the War, between people divided by the bar- riers of class, or wealth, or circumstance. A statesman of the seventeenth century remarks that It is a Misfor- tune for a Man not to have a Friend in the World, but for that reason he shall have no Enemy. 1 might invert his maxim and say. It is a Misfortune for a Man to ha/ve SOME GAINS OF THE WAR 11 many Enemies, hut for that reason he shall know who are his Friends.
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