Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTER III AN ASSURANCE TAKE it from me at this early stage of our writing: The forces of good overpowered the forces of evil a month ago, and the issue is settled here. The power set in motion will spend itself, and peace will return to the world. March 10. chapter{Section 4LETTER IV THE WAY OF UNDERSTANDING BEFORE I tell you any more horrors, I want to assure you now that out of those horrors will come a beauty such as the world has not known during this cycle of existence. It will not come at once, for many adjustments will have to be made; but the way is open already for those who choose to walk in it. It is a curious commentary on unregenerate humanity, this war in which each side declares loudly its own righteousness and execrates its opponent. As in all quarrels, there is more wrong on one side than on the other; but the side which triumphs?and it will be the side that has least wrong?will have to understand and to forgive its enemy before it can go forward to its own great future. Though international organizations have failed for the time being, I am not discouragedabout international organizations. They were merely shocked into failure, the peace people, the socialists, and others who make far higher claims to the ideal of universal brotherhood. Even now, during the stress of the conflict, go out yourself in thought and in love to that nation which you feel to be your enemy. Try to understand it. And do not try to understand it by telling yourself that it is evil. That is not understanding. There is evil in all men. Try to understand it by becoming it, for the time. Put yourself in its place; feel as you would feel if you stood alone?even though by your own fault?with the whole world against you. You draw back a little with the thought th…
