h. It will transform the people. They will gradually become
allies at heart instead of remaining hostiles.

As it is now, the German eats, drinks, bathes, and nauseatingly
does other elemental things much as he did a hundred years ago,
because he receives his instruction in his homeland with the
idea, not only complacent but aggressive, that his habits are
the best. And this is for the reason that he has seen no other
kind when young. Do you think, for instance, that a youthful
German, after living in the freedom of our young sexes, would
return to the Rhine and long be content with the iron-like
Teuton customs in love, courtship and marriage?

A youthful person is apt to admire the people among whom he is
staying a long while for the reason that, under such
circumstances, aliens are kind. He will always take pride in
these foreign connections, pride in what he has learned abroad.
He will think himself more fortunate and more advanced than his
fellow stay-at-homes. The young German, becoming used to more
amiable modes of existence, would naturally become more or less
fond of them. A broader, more human social spirit--the true
social spirit--would get a hold in him.

I would go further than my friend Anderson. I would have _all_
civilized countries adopt this plan with one another as well as
with Germany. The trouble with civilization, as seen in this
war, is that no people understands or truly sympathizes with any
foreign nation--not even among the Allies. They are strangers
because they have been kept strangers. This creates suspicion,
envy, enmity, for they have not in any noticeable degree lived
together. They do not know one another's customs, habits,
perspectives. As a result, armies, navies, tariffs, treaties
backed by force, are necessary to hold civilization precariously
in shape--and at what colossal effort, anxiety, expense? The
different languages, literatures, arts, educations, religions,
should become familiar to large numbers in each race and be the
open, peaceful highways back and forth instead of, as now,
barriers.

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_Flanders, another Mudhole, February, 1915._

... I see the woeful, tragic need for this international
co-education all around us here at the front. The Canadians,
Australians, English, French,