To help in any way the cause of human brotherhood requires not only sympathy but understanding. Make men feel and recognize in their inmost hearts what is their real, true duty to all men, and every old abuse of power, every iniquitous law in the national policy based on human, social or political, selfishness, will disappear of itself. Foolish is the gardener who seeks to weed his flower-bed of poisonous plants by cutting them off from the surface of the soil, instead of tearing them out by the roots. No lasting political reform can be ever achieved with the same selfish men at the head of affairs as of old. True culture is a uniting power.
Culture creates family and civic and national bonds.
The different strata of society form themselves naturally, culture being the cause of such formations. The mark of culture is seen in that strength with which man has overcome his own animal instincts, his own savagery. The past is important. And the European past is intimately connected with the Orient. Jesus, whose religion Christendom is supposed to follow, was himself an Asiatic.