What is true of individuals is true, also, of nations.  Before they can act in concert, they must think in concert, and, to do this, they must acquire the ability to think toward common goals.  If, to illustrate, all nations should come to think toward the goal of democracy, there would ensue a closer sympathy among them, and, in time, modifications of their forms of government would come about as a natural result of their unity of thinking.  Again, if all nations of the world should set up the quality of courage as one of the objectives of their thinking they would be drawn closer together in their feelings and in their conduct.  If the parents and teachers of all these nations should strive to exorcise fear in the training of children, this purpose would constitute a bond of sympathy among them and they would be encouraged by the reflection that this high purpose was animating parents and teachers the world around.  Courage, of course, is of the spirit and typifies many spiritual qualities that characterize civilization of high grade.  It is quite conceivable that these qualities of the spirit may become the goals of thinking in all lands.  Thus the nations would be brought into a relation of closer harmony.  Had a score of boys shared the experience of the lad who grew into the likeness of the Great Stone Face, their differences and disparities would have disappeared in the zeal of a common purpose and they would have become a unified organization in thinking toward the same goal.

We cannot hope to achieve the brotherhood of man until the nations of the world have directed their thinking toward the same goals.  What these goals shall be must be determined by competent leadership through the process of education.  When we think in unison we are taken out of ourselves and become merged in the spirit of the goal toward which we are thinking.  If we were to agree upon courage as one of the spiritual qualities that should characterize all nations and organize all educational forces for the development of this quality, we should find the nations coming closer to one another with this quality as a common possession.  Courage gives freedom, and in this freedom the nations would touch spiritual elbows and would thus become spiritual confederates and comrades.  By generating and developing this and other spiritual qualities the nations would become merged and unity of feeling and actions would surely ensue.  Since love is the greatest thing in the world, this quality may well be made the major goal toward which the thinking of all nations shall be directed.  When all peoples come to think and yearn toward this goal, hatred and strife will be banished and peace and righteousness will be enthroned in the hearts of men.  When there has been developed in all the nations of the earth an ardent love for the true, the beautiful, and the good, civilization will step up to a higher level and we shall see the dawn of unity.