Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III THE NEW AGE: ITS VALUES REAL and great as are the perils which confront us in the new age, and imperative as it is squarely to face them, they constitute, after all, only one side of the world situation. For there are also great values to be counted upon, and to be used to the full. And we may include under these values of the new age all the forces which may help to that great advance, that ought to follow from the war: the values involved in the outstanding characteristics of the present world- order; the moral demonstrations of the war, as they bear on the continued progress of the race; and the most significant ideal achievements of the war. I The Values Involved in the Characteristics of the Present World-Order We are first to consider the helpful trends involved in the outstanding characteristics of the present world-order. Of these characteristic world phenomena, two—the war's destructive use of modern science, and the relatively new relentless immoral philosophy of the State and of national life—are utterly hostile to a truly Christian civilization, and have been already dealt with. Three others—world solidarity; the prodigiously increased resources of power and wealth and knowledge made possible through modern science; and the forced cooperation— are ambiguous in their character. For, as the war has shown, they may be used for good or evil. They are problems for the ideal interests to solve, powerful forces to be mastered. And yet they are all so readily usable for good that they may be unhesitatingly classed among the great helpful trends of the age. The four others named—the world-wide trend toward democracy and universal education ; the establishment of a League of Nations to enforce peace, even granting its limitations; the steadily growi... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.