“The soul of the world is mortally sick, its courage broken, its ideals tarnished, and the will to live gone; the horizon is hazy, hidden behind burning clouds of destruction, and faith in the dawn of mankind is no more.”
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“The Suffering People of Europe.” Nobel Lecture, December 19, 1922.
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