Five hundred million dollars a year (an incredible number of Austrian crowns, Russian roubles, or Polish marks (if indeed the interest could be paid at the rate of five per cent)) which would give an elementary-school training to ten million children each year--as many children as are born each year into the world. And this interest could be paid if armaments were unnecessary. Ten million children a year taught the best that has been "delivered unto or invented by mankind" (as listed in the world curriculum) and led in their tuition toward the conscious unity of the race--planetary consciousness! Has a more stirring opportunity ever been offered to any people than is ours in the refunding of the great war debt, in such a way as to make it a blessing to the next generation instead of a crushing burden to the tax-paying generation that now goes bent with its burdens across Europe? If we were to demand our pound of flesh we should deserve the future fate of those in the "Inferno" who went eternally about weighed with cloaks of lead that were covered by a veneer of gold. Some of the principal might be used to buy books in which these millions of children might enter into the common possession of the race (perhaps in a common language), free of scorn of other nations, and so never know the hatreds which estranged their fathers; and some might be spent for the syndicated material of which Mr. Wells speaks--the knowledges of those things which would help them to find their particular place in the cosmos. Again, a part of the principal might be spent (and cancelled as a debt when so spent) in building schoolhouses where none can otherwise be built for a generation or two. These would be modern Enochian pillars--for what is a schoolhouse, after all, essentially but the very thing that Enoch caused to be erected--at any rate, when the teacher is in the schoolhouse furnished with the knowledge of the race mind? Even so, there would be enough left to provide for millions of planetary pupils in perpetuity. It would be the greatest foundation ever established upon earth for the salvation of civilization.