except the enemy within the camp? And how they robbed and crushed
the peoples against whom they had fought for freedom? And how the
wickedness of the tribes of Canaan survived their conquest and
overcame their conquerors, so that the children of Israel learned to
worship the idols of their enemies, Moloch, and Baal, and Ashtoreth?

"Power corrupts itself, and might cannot save. Was not Persia the
destroyer of Babylon, and did not the tyranny of Persia cry aloud for
destruction? Did not Rome break the yoke of the East, and does not the
yoke of Rome lie heavy on the shoulders of the world? Listen!"

There was silence for a moment on the slopes of Peacefield, and then
over the encircling hills a cool wind brought the sound of chains
clanking in prisons and galleys, the sighing of millions of slaves,
the weeping of wretched women and children, the blows of hammers
nailing men to their crosses. Then the sound passed by with the wind,
and Uriel spoke again:

"Power corrupts itself, and might cannot save. The Earth is full of
ignorant strife, and for this evil there is no cure but by the giving
of greater knowledge. It is because men do not understand evil that
they yield themselves to its power. Wickedness is folly in action, and
injustice is the error of the blind. It is because men are ignorant
that they destroy one another, and at last themselves.

"If there were more light in the world there would be no sorrow. If
the great King who knows all things would enlighten the world with
wisdom--wisdom to understand his law and his ways, to read the secrets
of the earth and the stars, to discern the workings of the heart of
man and the things that make for joy and peace--if he would but send