It is the most natural thing in the world that a person who has lived in a settlement house should have an international outlook, and that leads directly to international peace.
If the world were ready for it, we would be at peace. [image: JANE ADDAMS]
You don't expect a drunken man to reform in a day. All psychology is against it. It is the same with peace. But I think we are making progress everywhere. A peace congress in Ireland was considered something of an international joke, but we found the Irish very anxious to find a solution. They explained quite frankly that they had lost an old grievance which held them together as only a grievance can.
The war was too much for the spirit of the world, but I believe that in the League of Nations, in its bugling way, it is trying to find its way back to self-respect and the finer things.
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