1 i nes only to pfey upon each other. I or centurieti indeed for thou* siindi of yean, there existed no concord amongst them, only efforts of segregated pride and vanity.
But in the course of those years here must have lingered within hem the memory, the dream, of i common childhood�a vague recollection of the great work, f or gradually they felt a growing urge to seek out each other, unconsciously to revive lost con-ucts. A few keen-minded fellows look the lead. They visited foreign realms, returned with intelligence concerning those other lands, and soon nations established friendly relations. They imparted an acquired knowledge, exchanged assets, and before long discovered that divergent tongues need not mean estrangement, nor boundary lines an abyss, among peoples. Their Elders realized that no wisdom of a single people could grasp the Infinite and soon their sages also discovered that the interchange of ideas is more conducive to universal progress. The writers and poets carried the message of their contemporaries to their own nations, and music, the only thing free from the narrow bounds of language, permeated the common consciousness.
People grew to love each other all the more knowing that concord was possible beyond barriers of language; indeed they thanked Clod for having punished them vith this diversity of tongue. For He had thus given them the opportunity to enjoy the world in manifold fashion and, through the dissimilarity of their oneness, to love each other more intensely.
And so, in time, there began to arise again, on European soil, the T wer of Babel, a reminder of rernal fellowship�a monument human solidarity. It was no ger mere drab materials, bricks 1 cement, mortar and earth, h which they sought to reach I1 iven, to create fraternity be-t'  en God and the universe.
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The new tower was erected of the finest indestructible ingredients of earthly existence, out of spirit and experience�the sub-limest spiritual substances. Its foundation was ample and deep rooted, deepened by the wisdom of the Orient; Christian--tenets endowed it with equilibrium, humanity with the antiquity of hewn rock; All that mankind had ever accomplished, all that the earthly spirit had ever produced, was dovetailed into this tower; and it quickly reared its head Heavenward. Every nation guided itself .by what it contributed to this monument of Europe, The younger nations thronged around it and imbibed from the wisdom of their elders; they likewise enriched the experience with their own untapped powers, They taught each other skill and to realize that, because everyone labours differently, the * common zeal is enhanced; that occasional discord among people belonging to one nation cannot retard the common endeavour.
And so the Tower grew�the new Tower of Babel; its peak rising never so high as in our own day. Never before were nations so reciprocally immersed in its spirit. Never were the sciences so innately linked, nor commerce so closely interwoven into a wonderful net, and never did the people of Europe harbour so much love of country and of the rest of the world. They actually must have felt, in this exaltation, the oneness of Heaven, for the poets of all tongues began to indite odes to the beauty of human existence and creation; they felt themselves to be akin to the erstwhile builders of that mystic Tower, veritable Gods on the eve of fulfilment.
Thus, the monument rose higher and higher. Everything sacred to humanity was gathered therein. Overnight people who used to be happy co-workers ceased to comprehend each other and, because of this sudden lack of understanding, they became in-
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