Excerpt from The Reason of Life Revolutions, internal or external, in thought or in action, do t come except in a time or under conditions that have been prepared and are ripe for them. We are expected and commanded to be able to read the signs of the time. It is as criminal t to seize and use beneficent opportunity at its flood, as it is futile to exploit it at its ebb. We are moving w upon a very flood tide of opportunity. The thought of the world is upon and the demand of the time is for unity. We have entered upon an era of reconciliation and cooperation. This is evident in the most secular affairs of the world. The abolition of war may be many ages off, but there has never been anything like such a movement in the direction of it as we are w witnessing. So profound and general a raising of the question of arbitration and peace is in itself the surest progstic of a progressive approximation to its solution such as will be at least the diminution and amelioration if t the actual extinction of war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.