If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.