Article June 15, 1918 Issue

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with contributions from Helen Bosanquet, W. A. Cunningham Craig

[Helen Bosanquet in The Hibbert Journal]

We live in a world of things and actions; but we live also, all of us, in a world of ideas—ideas of what actions are right and what are wrong, of what things are good to have and what best, of our relations to other people and theirs to us. And it is this world which cries out for reconstruction. Whatever we may think the proximate causes of the war to be, we must find them ultimately in the fact that men have believed their good to lie in directions which lead to conflict rather than to harmony; and the problem which most urgently demands solution is the construction of a system of ideas which will not lead to conflict, but will naturally and inevitably involve cooperation. It is work which must be done primarily by our teachers in religion, in ethics, in economics, and by them passed on to our teachers of the young to become part of our educational system. We must, in short, devise an education which will lead men to seek their treasure in things which gain by being shared, to find their joy in making and giving rather than in taking or destroying.

[Rev. W. A. Cunningham Craig, M.A., in The Christian Commonwealth]

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