since it could not be escaped, and that what alone is important is—­that the major part of the peoples of the world are standing upright on their feet, lifting their arms with a great shout for Liberty, Justice, and Honor; that a war of brute force for conquest has defeated itself, and set free those who were to have been its victims.  It is not, I know, today or tomorrow that it will all end; it is not next year, or in many years, that poor Poland’s three mutilated parts can be joined and healed into harmony; and oh! how long it is going to be before all the sorrow and hatred that Germany has brought on the world can be either comforted or forgotten!  But at least we are sure now of the course the treatment is going to take—­so the sun shines and my heart is high, and I do believe that though joy may lead nowhere, sorrow is never in vain.