The Heart's Domain #265010

I am beginning a book with what sounds like a very ambitious title.<br><br>I wish to say at once that I have no qualifications to discuss political, historical or economic matters. I leave to the scholars who are versed in these redoubtable questions the task of explaining, skilfully and definitely, the great misery that has befallen our time.<br><br>I thus at the same time renounce most of the opportunities and obligations of my title.<br><br>But I wish, with all my heart, to pursue with a few people of good will a friendly discussion the object of which remains, in spite of all, the heart's domain, or the possession of the world.<br><br>The possession of the world is not decided by guns. It is the noble work of peace. It is not involved in the struggle which is now rending society.<br><br>Even so, men will find themselves engaged in an undertaking that will threaten to overwhelm them with suffering and despair.