because such a patriotism is incompatible with the inter-
national mind, but because under their ceremonial clothes
they hide the age-old predatory heart and serve the age-
old predatory interests. Lima has not labelled others,
and I am not going to label him; men, like countries, must
remain ever different. But countries, like men, may
bridge the gulf of difference by patient understanding,
and the rivers of blood that flow under those bridges must
be the blood of human tolerance and aid, not the blood
of barter and battle. It would be easy to point out a
certain "conservatism" in Lima, as in more than one
other, and yet, if it be possible for us to live in anything
but the present, he is a man of the future, for he has al-
ways dwelt above boundaries, above battles, above most
of the sublimated childishness which we grown-ups pom-
pously call "the serious business of the world."

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