I believe that the Devil Worshippers of the East hold the belief that for 6ooo years the Devil will rule the world and that Christ will rule for a similar period. This can be seen in every individual, class, sect, or nation, to-day. Individually we all of us stick in our respective ruts, be they the Army, or Club life, or sport, or other line. Similarly we see only our own social class. Education has no wider outlook than making scholars.
Religion has no wider outlook than making churchmen.
Nationalism has no wider outlook than the self-determination of its own country. In the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movement we ate making the attempt to oust selfulness by inculcating in the young a wider vision and mutual goodwill and service. We don't pretend that Scouting will do the trick, but since it has caught on with such an extraordinary rapidity as a brotherhood in so many different countries, irrespective of class, creed or race, one may hope that at any rate it is a definite step in the desired direction. Tips Looking back on my own life, I have in my time bumped up against a stupendous lot of good luck. I have for instance, had the luck to live in the most interesting evolutionary epoch in the world's history, with its rapid development of motor-cars, aeroplanes, wireless, Tutankhamen, the Great War and World convulsion, and so on.