To sum up, Governments and Peoples are no longer in charge. Our fate is really in the hands of the three great Powers――Science, Finance and the Press. Underneath the showy political surface of things, those three great Powers are secretly determining the march of the nations; and there is little hope for the future unless they can mellow and develop on international lines. In each of these departments of life there must be men who feel this, as strongly as the writer of these words. The world’s hope lies with them; in the possibility of their being able to institute a sort of craftsman’s trusteeship for mankind――a new triple alliance, of Science, Finance and the Press, in service to a new idealism. Nations, in block, will never join hands, never have much in common, never be able to see each others’ points of view. The outstanding craftsmen of the nations have a far better chance of seeing eye to eye; they have the common ground of their craft, and a livelier vision. What divides them at present is a too narrow sense of patriotism, and――to speak crudely――money. Inventors must exist; financiers live; and papers pay. And, here, Irony smiles. Though Science, Finance and the Press at present seem to doubt it, there is, still, more money to be made out of the salvation of mankind than out of its destruction; a better and a more enduring livelihood for these three Estates. And yet without the free exchange of international thought, we may be fairly certain that the present purely national basis of their livelihoods will persist, and if it does the human race will not, or at least so meagrely that it will be true to say of it, as of Anatole France’s old woman: ‘It lives but so little!’ Printed by W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., Cambridge, England. Transcriber’s Notes: ――Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). ――Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved. ――Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.