... You will not doubt that I am with you at heart, and that I have
the warmest sympathy and approval for your efforts to disseminate
ideas of peace, of reconciliation, of civilized forms of law, even in
the relations of nation to nation.
Of course I know, as well as the doubter and scoffer who seems to
himself so wise, that the Peace and Arbitration League can scarcely
count on practical results at this moment or in the immediate future.
But as a writer I believe in the might of the word, and its function
in changing traditional views and spreading new and better ones. If I
did not believe in this, I should long ago have broken my pen. So let
us write and speak unweariedly against the horror of war. _Semper
aliquid haeret_, and gradually we shall convert the governments and
nations from barbarians to men!