The Supreme Will or the danger of a premature peace

197 Pages·1916·7.588 MB·English

by  H. Dunlop (auth.)

THE SUPREME WILL
or
The danger of a
prennature peace
H. DUNLOP
THE SUPREME WILL
or
the danger of a
premature peace
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
1916
ISBN 978-94-017-6726-2 ISBN 978-94-017-6816-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-6816-0
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION •••••••••••••••••••••••••• PAGE I
CHAPTER I. EUROPE AFTER THE FIRST
r8 MONTHS OF WAR...... 23
II. GERMAN MENTRALITY. • • • " 33
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111. FRENCH AND BRITISH RES-
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PONSIBILITIES. • • • • • • • • • • " 40
IV. GERMANY AND EUROPEAN
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COLONISAIION .•••.•••••• , " 42
V. GERMAN BYZANTINISM AND
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ASPIRATIONS. • • • • • • • • • • • " 45
VI. GERMANY'S MORAL STAND-
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ARD ........ , ........... •• " 53
VII. ULTRA- MILITARISM PACI-
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FISM AND THE FUTURE •• " 65
VIII. ULTRA-MILITARISM STOPS
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PROGRESS ••••• ·~ •••••••.• " 77
IX. GERMANY DISARMED .... ·~ " Sr
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X. ENGLAND'S SECURITY A
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THING OF THE PAST •••••• " 8g
XI. THE PASSING OF POLITICAL
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MORALITY AND ITS RED-
EMPTION ... , , •.••••••• • •• "' " 93
CONTENTS.
cHAPTER XII. THE EAST AND THE WEST PAGE97
XIII. THE WHITE MAN'S MART-
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YRDOM·-····•-••·• .... ••~•··•·• "101
XIV. IF GERMANY IS NOT VAN-
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QUISHED •••••••• ._. •••••• " IOS
XV. INCORRIGIBLE GERMANY • " 110
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" XVI. NATIONS AND STATES ••.. " 117
XVII. LARGE STATES •••••••.•• " 123
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XVIII. PROTECTION AND FREE-
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TRADE - •••• ~· • • • • • • • • • • " 133
XIX. THE RESULTS OF AN OLD-
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FASHIONED PEACE. . • • • • • • " 144
XX. THE UNITED STATES OF
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EURO PE •••.•••.••.•• .! • • • • " 148
XXI. THE INTERNATIONAL AR-
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MY • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •.• • • • . " 161
J. THE IDEAL SOLUTION OF THE
PROBLEM.. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • " 161
Il. AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION " 173
XXII. NEUTRAL HOLLAND • . • . • • " 183
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INTRODUCTION.
We know things approximately.
Until we know all the laws of Nature, weshall not
get further than the outskirts of the truth.
Weshall know all the laws of Nature; but not by
strife; by co-operation.
The more we know them, the more we shall under
stand the meaning of the Holy Books. We shall know
what is meant by the words of Christ (St. J ohn 15 :
16) : "whatsoever ye shall ask of the F ather in my name,
he may give it to you." And (St. J ohn 14 : 19 and 20):
"Yet a little while and the world seeth me no more;
but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At
that day ye shall know that I am in my Father and ye
in me, and I in you."
We shall understand beyond doubt that God and
the Universeare One, and that Man is part ofthat
one-ness. (Acts 17 : 28): "For in Him we live and move
and have our being".
Since God is omnipresent, he is present in each cell,
in each molecule, in each atom, in each thinkable part
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2 INTRODUCTION.
of an atom, in each possible part of an atom. It follows
that He is, Himself, each possible part of an atom,
that He is each atom, each molecule, each cell, each
body that is built out of them, or of parts of them. He
is therefore identical with the Universe.
The ideas of Christ were so brilliant and so immense,
that only a very few could understand them. There
fore He said (St. John 16: 19): "I have yet many
things to sa y unto you. but ye cannot bear them
now."- Mankind has been pondering and suffering
these 19 centuries towards a better understanding of
the world. If we will make up our minds that there is
nothing outside of the Universe, and that therefore,
God, Universe and Mankindare One, the teachings of
Christ become wonderfully clear.
We need not make any useless inquiries about the
origin of the Universe. It is Etemal. We can only
know it by knowing its Laws. It will not be for us to
ask why understanding comes gradually, why immea
surable suffering has exasperated us, why justice has
been nothing but a word, why the whole of Mankind
had had to wade through endless swamps of misery
these thirty thousand years or more.
For long ages Man could not make hirnself familiar
with the idea of a God who is identical with the Uni
verse. The Great Seers who knewMan best,gavehim
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the truth in veiled words and in symbols. Their sense
is becoming clearer as Man 's understanding improves.
The number of those, whose eyes can bear the light, is
daily increasing.
We are not now concerned with ultimate notions of
philosophy, but with the question of how we can make
the best of the world and of our lives.
Does not the Bible declare, that God created Man
after his own image?
Does not Christianity declare, that the Kingdom
of God is within us? Within us. That means: within
Mankind.
Individual persons do not possess a free will beyond
certain physical limits. But the will of Mankind, as
part of the Universe come into consciousness, is only
limited by its knowledge and probably by the num
ber of men.
Since Man has been created after God's own image,
and the Kingdom of God is within Mankind, that
Kingdom is there already, but it requires improving.
Primitive Man could only understand a Supreme
Being, who was similar to his Kings, but infinitely
greater. He was omnipotent. Yet Evil existed. That
seemed a contradiction. So the invention of the Devil
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was unavoidable. He was probably invented by some
ancient nation in Asia. His power, however, was only
temporary. He was Ahriman, the Bad Principle, in con·
tinuous conflict with Ormuzd, the Good Principle,
who, in the fullness of Time, would be victorious. This
wonderful idea has left its impression on the human
mind ever since. It is part of our spiritual inheritance
and it runs through countless ages and generations and
through many creeds, like those of Manichaeans and
Gnostics. That is the reason why Social Democracy
worships Labour-Ormuzd, who will vanquish Capital
Ahriman, when Ormuzd-Labour will reign supreme.
It is a curious fact, too, that like most creeds, So
cial Democracy knows a Heaven, the Milennium, and
divides Mankind in Believers-Socialists and Heathens·
Bourgeois. And again we see that all creeds are the fruit
of one tree : the human mind, part of the Etemal Mind.
Man is: matter, come to a state of temporary cons
ciousness.
The greater the number of human beings, the grea
ter the amount of consciousness. It is our duty to en
noble that consciousness.
It is desirable that a maximum of matter should
reach consciousness. In other words, the more human
beings come into existence, the better.