§ 15

When wisdom is uppermost war will cease. Governments will not influence one way or another when the democracy is educated and so has become wise, when it declines to use genius in an evil direction, when, having learnt to use well and for national good the facilities for it which inventive genius has provided, democracy will see straight. Governments are at a discount just now. Looking over the world as it is at this moment it is difficult, perhaps impossible, so far to find one which is stable or wise. Wisdom must be born out of the people. Wisdom can only be gained by education, which means discrimination. The free will of a people can only serve for good when it is guided by right, not wrong, when people have been so mentally trained as to be able to discriminate between ephemeral and permanent welfare. If democracy is not to be a deadly failure and a deadly curse the people must retain their soul, their honesty, their good fellowship established upon intellectual more than emotional fellowship.

If good is to prevail over evil the working class, the noblest of England’s product in the past, must be led into the path which leads to Freedom by a sense of duty owing to the whole community which it is bound to be called upon to exercise, and to the full, in the future. It is for “the People” to make the final choice upon which the future of England depends—peace and prosperity or war and anarchy! When the people are educated to see straight agitators may roar themselves hoarse, may tell lies under cover of specious argument, but they will not prevail.