No one would say that the aims of the Allies to-day are the same as in 1914 or even as in April 1917. As the alliance develops, the purpose steadily shapes itself. It is man's part to create purpose and to actualize it. From the point of view of man we are just in the dawn of self- consciousness, and his purpose is dimly revealing itself to him. As this true purpose evolves itself, loyalty springs into being.
Loyalty is awakened through and by the very process which creates the group.
The same process which organizes the group energizes it. Moreover it is not enough to love the Beloved Community, we must find out how to create it. Loyalty to a collective will which we have not created and of which we are, therefore, not an integral part, is slavery. Loyalty means the consciousness of oneness, the full realization that we succeed or fail, live or die, are saved or damned together. In a relation of two I am not faithful to the other person but to my conception of the relation in the whole.