nothing absolutely new, nothing entirely different from the Old World. As James Bryce says, in speaking of the people of the United States, "their institutions are old, though many have been remodeled or new faced; their religion is old; their views of morality and conduct are old; their sentiments in matters of art and taste have not greatly diverged from those of the parent stock." Culture knows no nationality; it influences men's minds contemporaneously over the whole civilized world. In thought and culture the world is continually drawing closer together. Read: The American Commonwealth, James Bryce. The America's Conquest of Europe, David Starr Jordan. The Friendship of Nations, chap. v, Lucile Gulliver. Mere Literature, Woodrow Wilson. Houghton Point out the advantages of an international exchange of university professors, of public school teachers, and of students. (United States Bureau of Education, Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1912, vol. 1, pp. 43–48. Internationalism among Universities, by Louis P. Lochner; published by World Peace Foundation, Boston.) Show how our public school system reflects European methods. (The kindergarten, sloyd and manual training, physical culture, industrial education, etc.) Show how Cecil Rhodes has helped to break down national boundaries in education. (Cecil Rhodes and his Scholars as Factors in International Conciliation, by F. J. Wylie; published by American Association for Interna tional Conciliation, New York. Internationalism among Universities, p. 5, by Louis P. Lochner; published by World Peace Foundation, Boston. United States Bureau of Education, Report of Commissioner of Education, 1912, vol. 1, p. 47.) How does the Cosmopolitan Club in the universities of the world contribute toward a world culture? (Internationalism among Universities, by Louis P. Lochner; published by World Peace Foundation, Boston. The Cosmopolitan Club Movement, by Louis P. Lochner; published by American Association for International Conciliation, New York. The Cosmopolitan Movement, by Louis P. Lochner; from Bulletin, 1913, No. 12, United States Bureau of Education.) Explain the purposes of the Amerika-Institut at Berlin. (Publications can be obtained from the Amerika-Institut, Universitaet-Strasse 8, Berlin, N. W. 7, Germany.) Why would similar institutes in all countries bring the world nearer together? MAY: THE UNITED STATES AND WORLD BROTHERHOOD PEACE AND PROGRESS1 RICHARD WATSON GILDER Dear country mine! far in that viewless west, 1 From A Winter Twilight in Provence. Houghton Mifflin Company. And upward on no carcass of the slain; ADDRESS 1 STEPHEN S. WISE Remember that in this land of ours all the races, all the peoples, all the faiths of the world, are being brought together and are being fused into one great and indivisible whole, as if to prove that, if men will but come near enough together to know one another, whatever their nationality, their race, their religion, hatred and ill-will and prejudice and all uncharitableness are sure to pass away. Herein let America pioneer. Our country seems destined in the Providence of God to be the meeting place of all the peoples, to be the world's experimental station in brotherhood - all of us learning that other nations are not barbarians, that other races are not inferior, that other faiths are not Godless. The one principle underlying our homogeneous citizenship, composed of so many heterogeneous elements, is adherence to laws which recognize the brotherhood of humanity. No citizen who has the welfare of his country at heart can fail to respect the welfare of his fellows. Founded on the idea of democracy, which makes every person responsible for the common good, the United States is distinctly the nation which can extend the idea 1 From Address at Young People's Meeting of National Arbitration and Peace Congress, New York, 1907. of human brotherhood throughout the world. The union of our forty-eight States, working together and abiding by the laws of the Central Government, illustrates one of the most important conditions in the general work of civilization. The principle of federalism implies a desire to live together peacefully; in it we see the seeds of permanent peace between nations. The prominent part which the United States took in the First and Second Peace Conferences at The Hague in 1899 and 1907 was in keeping with the American spirit of human brotherhood. America had the honor of opening the Hague Court in 1902, since which time this international institution has shown on eleven different occasions its efficacy in settling disputes between nations. In the past, our country has taken the lead among the nations in signing treaties of arbitration, and it fell to one of our Presidents to proclaim the principle of unlimited arbitration treaties. President Taft said: "I do not see why even questions of honor may not be submitted to a tribunal supposed to be composed of men of honor, who understand questions of honor, and why the nations should not then abide by the decision, as well as by the decision regarding any other question of difference between them." The Peace Palace at The Hague, the great international monument of "peace through justice," was built through the generosity of one of our philanthropists. The Bureau of American Republics at Washington, frequently called the American Peace Palace, was also his gift; the Central American Court of Justice is housed in a noble building, provided by him; while the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, of ten million dollars, exerts an influence in every corner of the world. The World Peace Foundation, of one million dollars, founded by Edwin Ginn, and the American School Peace League are extending their educational policies to the universities and schools of the world. The modern peace movement began in the United States in 1815, and since that time our country has taken the leading part in all the efforts for promoting the spirit of justice and human brotherhood. The young American citizen certainly holds the torch of good will which will shed its light over all the earth. Read: Swords and Ploughshares, Lucia Ames Mead. G. The Friendship of Nations, Lucile Gulliver. Ginn The First Hague Conference, Andrew D. White. American Political Ideas, John Fiske. Houghton The Significance of the Eighteenth of May, Fannie Texts of the Peace Conferences at The Hague, 1899 Show how the Hague Court of Arbitration, open to the forty-eight nations of the world, approximately parallels the Supreme Court of the United States which has jurisdiction over the forty-eight States of the Union. (Yearbooks of the American School Peace League, Fannie Fern Andrews.) Show how the Interparliamentary Union might |
