to the purpose is one of the most difficult but most important things to be learned.  Instead of using “Euclid” as a means of teaching scholars to reason, they are expected to use compasses carefully to make circles round—­a matter of no importance whatever for the matter in hand—­but it diverts their attention from the true object of study.  There is a lesson for others in the highly emphasised remark once addressed by a great advocate to his junior who was taking an over-elaborate note, “Stop that scratching and attend to the case.”  But intellectually the worst of all is the danger that education will be directed to teaching and to learning mere phrases.  It saves thought and provides us with a kind of paper currency conventionally accepted, though of no real value.  In every subject we study, in every department of life, in law, in politics, and in religion, the domination of the phrase fetters thought and perverts action.  It is tempting to give examples, but we must forbear.

“Time is our tedious song should here have ending,” but those who can never see the accomplishment of what they hope for, the old “who dream dreams,” may be forgiven if they try once more to get some vision of the land which others “if strong and of a good courage” will “go in to possess.”  It may, perhaps, in the sunset light seem brighter from far off than those who first enter it will find it to be, or, it may be, the distant prospect discloses but a part of what they will conquer.

Again the question will be asked, What will emerge from this struggle, this untold bloodshed, these bitter losses and widespread destruction, what will be the harvest that this “red rain” will make to grow, what Church will spring from the blood of the martyred youth—­a great multitude which no man can number?  Again we may answer, as after the war half a century ago, so short in its duration, and so limited in its extent as compared with the World War of to-day, “For the victors Union, for the vanquished Regeneration.”  Who will the victors be?  Rightly shall we think first of our own land of Britain with all the dominions that form the Empire built up by the labour and the valour of its sons and called by its name, united now by the closer bonds of common efforts, common sacrifices and common resolves, loyal to one throne, the symbol of its unity, cherishing one record of heroic deeds, the example and the inspiration for the generations to come; above all, as a country that is “at unity with itself,” free from intestine war of party against party, creed against creed, and class against class.

But this War has not been a war of Empire against Empire, of Nation only against Nation.  It has been waged by the alliance of the people all over the world who believe in justice, in a law which says, “Thou shalt not, because thou hast the power and the will to thine own advantage, use that power to dominate others and exercise that will regardless of their rights.”  The victors will be all