But I have since travelled over a great part of that way--the long, long way, let us not forget, by which we have come out of captivity--and I found that, while the barbed-wire entanglements have been cleared from most of the fields and the trenches had been filled, the entanglements, suspicion and hate, were still keeping nations apart, even without guns and bombs and poisonous gas. I was the first American to make the journey across Asia Minor after the Armistice. Starting from the vicinity of the Tower of Babel, which stood amid "the whole earth of one language and one speech," and which sought to reach the heaven until the builders were suddenly unable to understand one another's speech and were dispersed, gibbering and gesticulating and quarrelling, over the earth--starting from the neighborhood of that Scriptural memory, I travelled for days through homeless misery and physical want and mental hate, which I felt were but the sequelæ of the world disease, and would soon pass. But conditions are, if anything, worse than when I passed that way. It is only the mercy and ennobling philanthropy of Americans that are preventing the extermination or degradation of a race. But I have more lately travelled over nearer sections of that long way back to the cradle of the race and of Christian civilization. Within the year I have walked, or ridden by ship or train or airplane, all the way from the west coast of Ireland to the then closed door of Russia and along its then impenetrable western wall down to Hungary and back. Alas! the separating, the estranging hatreds are still there. Barriers and entanglements, visible and invisible, were upon every border all the way across Europe. Unspeakable inconveniences, often hardships, had to be endured by the ordinary traveller in these zones of suspicion and antipathy and hate, till I came to think of the countries they separated as the "United Hates of Europe." What I wish to bring out of this all is not our local obligations, our interstate and intranational obligations, but our world obligations, which we share with others--the obligations to see that all the children of the earth have a chance to escape from those hatreds into the best things of the race as a whole.