Newark post., 1916-02-02

owe our duty to humanity, and
to our fellow ma
tions.' We owe this duty, because
if each nation has it's own life,
and it's own irrevocable past, it
does unwisely if it so acts that
afterward, if wise, it must regret
it's past, and must repudiate the
principles which have thus far
guided it's course of action.
"But not only the tragedies of
our times may teach us new les
sons as to what international duty
is, the deeds of our times include
acts which give us new examples
never known before of how a ma
tion, facing a great crisis, can be
guided mainly or solely by the
idea of duty-that is, of it's duty
as a nation to other nations and
to mankind. Emerson's classic
word about how Duty speaks to
the Youth is in the minds of all of
you. Emerson wrote that word,
addressing it to the generation of
youth to which belonged the he
roes whose names are now written
on the tablets of Memorial Hall
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So close is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, Thou
must
The Youth replies, 4 cam
Emerson found this divine eff
| ficacy of the voice of duty, when it
spoke to the heroic youth of our
Civil War, something miraculous.
'It is a most hopeful sign that
in our day, and during the present
war there was moment when
the voice of duty spoke low, but
with divine power, not merely to
an individual, or to nation, to a
nation heroic and noble beyond
the measure of what the wit of
man has heretofore viewed as pos
sible.
an the autumn of 1914 so nigh
was grandeur to our dust, so close
was God to man. that when Duty
whispered low, Thou must that
her hero nation, Belgium, replied
4 cam and so, in Emerson's words
was nerved to hazard all in free
dom's fght'-a fight not only fol
the life of a nation, but for the life
of humanity. Thus a nation has
appeared, as perhaps never before
in the light of suffering servant
) of the Lord among the nations"
: Professor Royce draws an ex
ample from the transformation o:
South-American society since 1885,
as "the best ground of our hope
that out of the present crisis w
: are to be led nearer toward thu
/ goal that the great community o.
mankind is consciously or uncon
sciously seeking to attain;
{ about a quarter of centur,
ago South America was passinl
| through that series of information
: al conflicts and of internal revo
I lutionary struggle, one phase o
| which eliminated in those trou
} bles of the Argentine Republi
| which led in Europe to the failur
5 of the Barings. We in the Unite'
5 States, nearly all of us, believe
5 at that time that there was littl
| hope of seeing the republics o
Y Souh America reach any positio
in which international peace, s.
far as the mutual relations o
republics were concerned, coul
, become more frequent or NOR
stable. Most of us supposed tina
those republics were thencefort
doomed to a series of wars an
revolutions whose end was not de
! finable and not to be hoped for.
g "But of late years, when in va
e rious voyages in tropical water
y l have chanced to meet ambitious
vigorous, and reasonably well-cu
G tivated young South-Americans
e representatives sometimes OF CON
y mercial firms, interested some
t times in engineering and some
times in social problems, hav
|, heard from such young men (es
d pecially in case they were PERT
: vians, or Chileans, or citizens Q
i Argentina) comments whose ton
f was both clear and confident. Sue
= men like to say that civilizatio
e now finds it's most secure home i
s the southern republics of Sout
r A m er "a, where internations
e peace and the avoidance of revc
i luton are rapidly coming to b
i used as normal and natural event
e expressing not only what human
f ity needs, but what civilized hr
e manity is henceforth normally
It get.