Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-09
SEES NATION AWAKE
TO UNIVERSAL UNITY
Albert Powell Warrington. Theo-
sOphical Leader, Discusses
Reconstruction

Albert Powell Warrington. national presi-
dent for the United States and Canada, Of
the Philosophical Society. spoke at the Belle
vue-Stratford last evening on "rhe Funda-
mental Principles of reconstruction MIR.
Warrington. said. in part:
THE awakening that has come to us as
a nation since we entered the war has
aroused us 10 the consc 'ousness Of our unity
as a nation. Not that alone: We have sensed
the spirit of universal unity. See how the
periodicals OF the day are rejecting this.
every one OF them. Today one can scarcely
glance through any of them without en-
countering the most vital discussions OF
problems having to do with human welfare
In all its phases.
TOO long brotherhood has been thought
of as u pretty sentiment. but impractical
in daily life. 1t is time that the leaders Of
practical material progress began to see
that the spirit OF brotherhood is the most
Intimately practical thing in life, for II is
based on the most fundamental fact OF eN-
istence,
mo one who stops to think can fail to
realize that all life is one. and therefor"
,ba, all real strength. power and success
must come from the whole. BY tho very
law OF action and reaction II one puts forth
energy that affects the whole. that action
automatically reacts upon the doer with the
mower of the whole. In the ultimate ANALYSIS
there is no success. no advantage more sure
and crowning than that which is based on
urseIfsh action. Parodoxical as II seems,
there is nothing so towcringly and beaut'-
fully self-adyancing as utter self-sacrihce
and Aservice.
.Tf this bc true Of the individual how
augmentedly true Is II OF aesresatiohs Ut
individuals,
"This perception Of unity we must not lose,
Wa must let 4, deepen and extend 10 the
,ttermost parts of our life. We must realize
that tho war was the eliminating circun-
stance In an epoch wherein the spirit of
soma rateress strove with that OF unity.
..The triumph Of arms and diplomacy alone
,r;u mot suffice 10 insure the golden age that
,pust follow the dark DAYS that are now
closing behind us. There must now ensue a
peaceful struggle to hold The unity we have
Gained and 10 weave it into the garment of
the new civilization.
..Tbe business of this planet is TO produce
, complete race Of absolutely perfect men
cpd women. and this can never come about
until the unity OF the whole is adopted as
,he working basis for all the affairs of life.
humanity is in reality a single entity, a
giant cosmic consciousness with Individual
rnen as aggregated cells. We must under
stand this and readjust all our conditions
10 this understanding. else we shall fail to do
what we came for.
"What this remarkable age requires is a
modern Moses to lead us out of the Egypt of
competitive struggle into the land OF CO.
lucrative evolution. wherein a complete sys-
fem of human training will be adopted all
over the world. whose object is to develop
the human type up to its highest POSSIBLE
ties. and this to be so perfectly and extern
siyeiy organized as to make the scheme
applicable TO every living creature"