and of all mankind, setting aside monarchy and national egotism
altogether, can mankind come to any certain happiness and
security.  The precedent of Islam helps my faith in the creative
inspiration of such a renascence of religion.  The Sikh, the
Moslem, the Puritan have shown that men can fight better for a
Divine Idea than for any flag or monarch in the world.  It seems
to me that illusions fade and effigies lose credit everywhere.
It is a very wonderful thing to me that China is now a
republic....  I take myself to be very nearly an average man,
abnormal only by reason of a certain mental rapidity.  I conceive
myself to be thinking as the world thinks, and if I find no great
facts, I find a hundred little indications to reassure me that
God comes.  Even those who have neither the imagination nor the
faith to apprehend God as a reality will, I think, realise
presently that the Kingdom of God over a world-wide system of
republican states, is the only possible formula under which we
may hope to unify and save mankind. 

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