Technically, the year 1921 may be termed one of relative peace, especially if its events are compared with the state of the world between 1914 and 1918. Yet peace can be fully understood only by those who have found it for themselves in Mind, and may even appear to be continual commotion to others, for the equilibrium of Mind which constitutes both rest and order is not a static physical condition but moves and lives with infinite vitality. The peace of 1921 has been alive with protests against lingering injustices and tyrannies, with the desire to reject the inequalities, oppressions, and depressions of mortal existence for something better, and with actual daring and doing. To say this is not just to make the most of a supposedly bad mess but is to discern something of the truth of what has been going on, which many people have so narrowly misinterpreted.
As Jeremy Bentham once wrote, "The great enemies of public peace are the selfish and dissocial passions." Through Christian Science the infinity of real peace is discerned to consist of the satisfied association of spiritual man with his divine Principle. When it is understood that Mind and idea alone can ever truly associate, and that in this true society of divine intelligence there is nothing of illusory human selfishness and passion peace of Mind, is found to be forever secure now, safe from any supposition of an enemy. This, then, is the lesson of 1921, as it has been the lesson of every other year if people had but recognized it, that honestly accepting and serving Principle, with its idea., as the only reality is experiencing peace, regardless of any earthly seeming.
In "The Character of a Happy Life," one of the many such poems written late in the sixteenth and early in the seventeenth century. Sir Henry Wotton said:—
