Originally Published 1915.
If this be so, it becomes a part of true patriotism to keep the spiritual life, both of the individual citizen and of the social group, active and vigo.
No nation is truly victorious which does not emerge with soul unstained.
We are often told, that in the critical periods of history it is the national soul which counts: that "where there is no vision, the people perish." No nation is truly defeated which retains its spiritual self-possession.
Originally Published 1915