ABSTRACT
Liberality is the inner content of civilization. And as war, if it should come, is likely by its material destructiveness to wreck the material civilization of Europe from without, so the fear of war and memories of war by making liberality impossible are poisoning that civilization from within. A liberal man, free from prejudice and passion, sees that the welfare of all human beings is good. It may be his first business to attend to the welfare and health of the people of Bristol, or Birmingham, or Glasgow, but he quite sees that the health of the people of Paris or Berlin is desirable. The modem world is dominated by fear-fear created by the Great War and perpetuated by its consequences and memories. The fear is justified that is the terrible thing, yet it conquered, for, as it spreads, fear becomes the root of so many evils.
