ds of Dr. Timothy
Richard, one of the most distinguished Englishmen in China, in the
same conversation from which a fragment was quoted in the beginning of
this article:

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"The world is going to be one before you die, sir," he said as we
talked together just outside the walls of the Forbidden City. "We are
living in the days of anarchy. Unite the ten leading nations; let all
their armaments be united into one to enforce the decrees of the
Supreme Court of the World. And since it will then be the refusal of
recalcitrant nations to accept arbitration that will make necessary
the maintenance of any very large armaments by these united nations,
let them protect themselves by levying discriminating tariff duties
against the countries that would perpetuate present conditions."

All this I endorse. The necessity of preserving the national wealth
from the wastes of war I regard as one of the most important lessons
that we may get from the Orient. And yet I would not have the United
States risk entering upon that military unpreparedness which must
prove a fool's paradise until other great nations are brought to
accept the principle of arbitration. The proper programme is to
increase by tenfold--yes, a hundredfold--our personal and national
efforts for arbitration, at the same time remembering that so long as
the community of nations recognizes the Rule of Force we cannot secede
and set up a reign of peace for ourselves. If it takes two to make a
quarrel, it also takes two to keep a peace. We must be in terrible
earnest about bringing in a new era, and yet we cannot commit the
folly of trying to play the peace game by ourselves. It is not
solitaire.

Even more important, whether we consider it from the standpoint of the
general welfare or as a matter of national defence, is the
conservation of our physical stamina and racial strength. Whether the
wars of the future are commercial or military it doesn't matter. The
prizes will go to the people who are strong of body and clear of mind.
"The first requisite," said Herbert Spencer, "is a good animal," and
not even the success of a Peace Court will ever prevent the good
animal--the power of physical vigor and hardness with its {268}
concomitant qualities of courage, discipline, and daring--from
becoming a deciding factor in the struggle between nations and between
races. It has been so from the dawn of history and it will ever be so.

And just here we may question whether