roo THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD’S FUTURE 
thing that may evidently be misjudged is the world’s 
psychology. The spirit behind aggression can never 
promise a bright future for Man. There are those 
who think that the only mistakes made are the decisions 
to make the conflicts armed conflicts. To such it is 
submitted that had the conflicts been non-moral com- 
mercial ones, the issues would still be subject to the 
moral world-basis and would be untoward ultimately. 
They create intense antagonisms. 
It is when such matters are kept in view that the 
relationship of Nationalism to the peopling of the 
world becomes very significant. When nationalism is 
supremely egoistic, it is non-moral and conflicts with 
the ideals of nationalism developed for the benefit of 
humanity. Is it, as a fact, true that “ no nation liveth 
unto itself?” In short, is there a higher world- 
purpose than the organisation of a people for power and 
self-aggrandisement, viz., to ensure both its well-being 
and its beneficence to all other peoples? 
One sees the smile of incredulity of those whose real 
faith is that there is but one god and that god is 
Material Power, power which arises from a knowledge 
of the nature of material things; power which can 
create material wealth; and can create also instruments 
of awful disaster to those who oppose them; power 
which can create instruments, too, that can help us to 
explore the realm of the physical and subjugate Nature 
to our ends with extraordinary success, compelling 
her to contribute more to the purposes of human 
life and human sustenance. 
It is this power, some will assert, that has already 
revealed the way for greater multitudes to live on 
earth; a fact proved by the large rate of the recent 
increase, compared with Man’s mysteriously slow 
development in the past. To this one may answer: 
“Yes, it has undoubtedly shown that the accessions 
of knowledge may be beneficent in their effects, but