humanity who everywhere represent the universal life (without, in a sense, being aware of it), and again, above them, among those whose spirits have passed "in compassion and determination around the whole earth and found only equals and lovers," the water flows pure and free. These two groups--between them forming far the largest and most important mass of human kind--are those whose influence and tendency is toward peace and amity. It is only the scurrying, avaricious, fever-stricken, and, for all their wealth, poverty-stricken classes and cliques of the civilization-period who are the sources of discord and strife--and they only for a time. In the end it will be found that by every river and stream and tiny brook over the whole earth grows the invincible Tree of Life, whose roots are deep in the human heart, and whose leaves are for the healing of the Nations. FOOTNOTES: [31] _My Life_, vol ii, p. 288. [32] G. Lowes Dickinson, _Civilizations of India, China, and Japan_, p.43. See also Eugene Simon, _La Cité Chinoise,_ passim. * * * * * APPENDIX [The following extracts, mostly from contemporaneous sources, are gathered together in an Appendix with the object of throwing side-lights, _often from opposing points of view_, on the questions raised in the text.] * * * * * APPENDIX A NEW AND BETTER PEACE. "If we now destroy the German national idol, it must not be to set up an idol of our own in its place. There will be ruin enough after the war to repair, and a heavy task for all the nations in repairing it; but if they have learned then that peace is not a disguised war but a state of being in which men and nations alike pursue their own ideas of excellence without rivalry, then we shall know that the irrevocable dead have not died in vain."--_"Times" Literary Supplement_, _September_ 17, 1914. * * * * * THE CHANGE FROM THE GERMANY OF KANT AND GOETHE AND SCHUBERT TO THE GERMANY OF TO-DAY--AND THE DELUSION OF IMPERIALISM.