If once enough individuals have conformed their lives to their knowledge, the multitude will soon follow. "The passage of men from one order of life to another does not take place steadily, as the sand in the hour-glass runs out, one grain after another from the first to the last, but rather as a vessel that has been sunk into water fills itself. At first the water gets in only on one side, slowly and uniformly; but then its weight makes the vessel sink, and now the thing takes in, all at once, all the water that it can hold."[1161] Thus the impulse given by individuals will provoke a movement that goes on faster and faster, wider and wider, avalanche-like, suddenly sweeps along the masses, and brings about the new order of life.[1162] Then the time is come "when all men are filled with God, shun war, beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks; that is, in our language, when the prisons and fortresses are empty, when the gallows, rifles, and cannon are out of use. What seemed a dream has found its fulfilment in a new form of life."[1163] FOOTNOTES: [859] To. "Kingdom" pp. 244-5, 280, 315, 325. [860] _Ib._ pp. 263, 285-6, To. "Gospel" p. 25, "Religion and Morality" p. 14. [861] To. "What I Believe" p. 251. [862] To. "Gospel" pp. 13-14, 16-17. [863] To. "Kingdom" p. 96-7. [864] To. "What I Believe" pp. 247-8. [865] To. "Reason and Dogma" p. 5. [866] To. "What I Believe" p. 196. [867] To. "Gospel" pp. 51, 29-30. [868] _Ib._ p. 47. [869] To. "Patriotism" p. 118. [870] To. "Gospel" p. 29. [871] To. "Gospel" p. 50; To. "Religion and Morality" p. 27. [872] To. "On Life" p. 214. [873] To. "Gospel" p. 31. [874] _Ib._ pp. 32, 31, 40, 112. [875] To. "What I Believe" p. 164. [876] To. "Gospel" p. 21. [877] _Ib._ p. 21. [878] To. "What I Believe" pp. 160, 174. [879] _Ib._ p. 166. [880] To. "Confession" p. 92. [881] To. "Kingdom" pp. 75-7, 79. [882] To. "What I Believe" pp. 195, 272, "Kingdom" pp. 72-3, "Gospel" p. 5. [883] To. "Kingdom" p. 234. [884] To. "On Life" p. 48. [885] _Ib._ pp. 72, 66. [886] To. "Confession" p. 54. [887] To. "On Life" p. 101. [888] _Ib._ p. 100. [889] _Ib._ p. 100. [890] _Ib._ pp. 160, 101. [891] _Ib._ pp. 160, 101. [892] _Ib._ pp. 262-3. [893] To. "On Life" p. 263. [894] _Ib._ p. 263. [895] To. "Religion and Morality" pp. 21-2. [896] To. "Kingdom" p. 71. [897] To. "Gospel" p. 25. [898] _Ib._ p. 25. [899] To. "What I Believe" pp. 138-9 [900] _Ib._ p. 268. [901] _Ib._ p. 148. [902] To. "On Life" pp. 159-60. [903] _Ib._ p. 165. [904] _Ib._ p. 164. [905] _Ib._ pp. 170-71. [906] To. "Kingdom" p. 140. [907] _Ib._ p. 139. [908] _Ib._ p. 138. [909] To. "Kingdom" p. 142, "What I Believe" p. 17. [910] To. "Kingdom" p. 123. [911] To. "Religion and Morality" p. 12. [912] To. "Kingdom" pp. 124-5. [913] To. "Morning" pp. 70-71. [914] To. "On Life" p. 148. [915] _Ib._ pp. 147, 148. [916] _Ib._ pp. 122, 133-5, 174, 176. [917] _Ib._ pp. 121, 174.