The World Court was just as feasible as a family court, declared Hon. John Hays Hammond, although it did involve more elements as a tribal court. The time was ripe, he declared, for the higher règime of pacific reason and moral adjudication and America should voice the world groping and moral inquiry of the race and cause them to crystallize into a new world state “where men shall learn war no more.” After setting forth the limitations of the World’s Court which perforce of necessity turns to the future rather than the past the Hon. Henry Lane Wilson asked “How vast would be the gain to humanity and civilization, how greatly would the number of wars be reduced, and how enormously would the horrors of conflict be diminished, if such a court were now in existence?” The purpose of the Congress, said Bainbridge Colby, was to bear aloft the standards of justice and of law; of justice as the mightiest concern of mankind—of law as its indispensable instrument. Mr. Colby positively denied that force had dethroned reason and declared that “The purpose of this Congress is to assert the undaunted and unshaken belief of the freest people in the world, that God still reigns, and that justice is mightiest in the mighty.” Rabbi Joseph Silverman made an appeal for the awakening of a new spirit of patriotism which would point the way to a great World Court for peace. “We are worse off to-day,” he asserted, “than men were in the days of savagery. The savage went forth with his bow and his arrow and his tomahawk, and one savage could, at best, with one shot kill one human being. But the modern civilized man goes forth with Krupp guns and cannons and bombs and shells and submarines and automobile and airship, and one human being to-day, with these arts and sciences of civilization, one human being, pressing one button, with one shot can kill ten thousand human beings, and destroy hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of property. One savage can kill one man—one civilized man can destroy a whole city.” Mr. Henry Clews in an address entitled “An Epochal Event,” called attention to the fact that the World Court Congress was an event of supreme importance and attracted world wide attention and interest that could not fail to help the cause of permanent peace. The movement, he avowed, for the creation of a great International Court of Justice “brings us a step nearer to that sublime idea of the inspired writer when men ‘shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks,’ and they shall hear no more of war upon the surface of this fair earth.”