The Remedy

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI Twenty Years Hence Suppose education for character building has been generally applied and made universally popular, in connection with the chastisement the people are receiving for having lost their way, would not the following appearing in current literature twenty years from now be practical and reaonable? IT is now the year 1935, and as the delegates from all the nations in the world are assembling in convention in the room of the House of Representatives at Washington, in the United States, to discuss the progress of the world's civilization, a retrospective view of the events leading up to this day will ever have a living interest that time will not dim and no events of the future can efface. It is a span of twenty years between the conditions that were and the conditions that are. At the further end of this bridge of time were chaos, character demoralized, unhappiness and discontent--co-extensive with the boundaries of the world; a black pall of smoke hung over the continent across the seas, where the people of more than onehalf of the inhabitable globe were in sanguinary conflict, killing each other and destroying the works of man that had been centuries in the making.--And at this end of the bridge of time, peace on earth that has come to stay and civilization crowding to the front by rapid strides that promises the fulfillment of man's utmost hope. At the close of the great war, in the world's convention that met at The Hague, the cause of war and man's disputes and quarrels were analyzed. Man's purpose here on earth; his aim, the crowning of a great civilization; the object, peace, prosperity, happiness and contentment of the people, not the people of one nation but of all nations; the victories of peace, greater...