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Is There Any Hope?
There is little more to be said. I would only like to set down, before concluding, a few considerations which might help to clarify the issue between us. For I cannot believe that the contest between our two ways of life will come to an end within measurable time, and I cannot believe that while the contest continues it will ever be lifted to purely spiritual levels. I will not confound eschatology with daily experience: if ever the dream of the prophet should come true, if ever men should live at peace with each other, expressing their antagonisms without enmity—why, they will no longer be men, but another species, and talk of Jew and gentile will be as irrelevant then as it might have been twenty thousand years ago. The world is getting better, no doubt, but the improvement is not
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