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Show ' DR VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE . ! . B ir. i mi e i kNCE The world 1 one. Keliglon 1ms been savliiK so for B lonf: time bul tl)c- solo of religion has become a full-voiced choir. Trade Is preaching the solidarity solidar-ity of the world toduy. ;ind politics, and Ichor unions, anil Invention, and exploration. ;s well us art ami letters let-ters anil music. No nation can any longer live alone. What affects the prosperity of one country ! felt around the earth. What hlWtfl one nationality hurts the race. There is a tide of life that beats with the pulses of mankind. The country that seeks to advantage itself at the cost of other nations will find Its si I-llsh I-llsh grains a boomerang. The blood of the world beats out from a common com-mon heart, and while the racial extremities ex-tremities of the giant may be distant, dis-tant, the red current th:it carriee life Is everywhere and always the same. And so you cannot build civilization civiliza-tion out of .i segment of the rai Vnu cannot have hum.ui brotherhood In a world half slave and halt" free. You cannot have n sound world wllh any part of it sick, or a safe world with I any section of it perilous, or a happv 'vor!d with some of Its children In I darkness and the shadow of death. Hate must go Jt must be under, ban. The world Is so tangled up Ihatj no man can any longer afford to hate his (cllow. Caste must disappear Thci rnce-kln has registered its order against the barbarism that draws thi- i lino at color or culture or creed. The: world Is one, and nations as well ail Individuals must be friendly. The common man must be a cosmopolitan 'lor the frontiers have disappeared. ThJ solidarity of llle world is a new, 'article in the creed of politics; but It i Is an old article In the creed of re-1 jliglon. It Is ih biggest nnd lust fact In modern statesmanship It Is not always i.illed by the same name. Sometimes it Is called democracy, sometimes internationalism, sometime-humanity, sometime-humanity, but there Is a shorter word by which to call It God! "He hasi made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the! e.-.rth"; and the solidarity of the I world is Just i way of announcing that' God tin." a rriv ed |