e future." Out of the fierce struggle and turmoil of contending
systems and powers I see a brighter spiritual era slowly emerge--an
era in which there shall be no England, no France, no Germany, no
America, no this people or that, but one family, the human race; one
law, peace; one need, harmony; one means, labor; one taskmaster, God.

If I should try to say anew the creed of the optimist, I should say
something like this: "I believe in God, I believe in man, I believe in
the power of the spirit. I believe it is a sacred duty to encourage
ourselves and others; to hold the tongue from any unhappy word against
God's world, because no man has any right to complain of a universe
which God made good, and which thousands of men have striven to keep
good. I believe we should so act that we may draw nearer and more near
the age when no man shall live at his ease while another suffers."
These are the articles of my faith, and there is yet another on which
all depends--to bear this faith above every tempest which overfloods
it, and to make it a principle in disaster and through affliction.
Optimism is the harmony between man's spirit and the spirit of God
pronouncing His works good.

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