During the year or more before the armistice, a condition appeared among the Allies which at the time was called war-weariness. This sense of exhaustion suggested itself not only to the soldiers in the trenches but to those at home who were busy in their share of the campaign for rightness. The argument that then spread among those who were active for Principle was a doubt as to whether their efforts could be of any avail, whether they were of the right kind, or whether, after all, they were being made on a right basis. In other words, the suggestion of weariness in well-doing is a denial of the effectiveness of good, a suppositional nullification of the expression of intelligence.
To-day when swords are being beaten into plowshares, the same kind of impatience, intermingled as it always is with skepticism and cynicism, may seem to present itself to those engaged in furthering the demonstration of peace in accord with Principle. The wild destructiveness of war is so unforgotten in the thought of many that they may be tempted to be incredulous of unfolding goodness and to fritter away much of their thinking on the beliefs of the human senses. In such a condition of thinking, all that can save one is the discernment and understanding of the truth that Principle and its expression as real living never have been touched by beliefs of mortality. The presence of true Mind manifest as spiritual idea, understood and firmly adhered to, cannot be denied or nullified.
In his familiar "Epilogue" to "Asolando" Browning wrote of
