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it is that is responsible lor the further outpouring of the nations' blood. And what is this but the whole policy of the pacifist? What the pacifist savs, is: If your objects are righteous, and your motives as pure as you say, then declare them, and prove your innocence to the d

Why should the nations piteouslv perish together? Why should the innocent, robust youth of all the lands of Europe condemned to self-destruction? Why, indeed, but because of the lust and greed handful of faithless men; or because of the policy of secrecy and fear which such gree

war. It f<-r picturing imminent r»f tin- » ii'-iny, and tin* peep}. (,ut f(»r n< t<>he;i v» 11 n< \v si^ r ;»i« ' >f tlic eneru\, t- >ir:-j>i r. < ■ r hope. \nd so tin- em.tliet wear-- on. !><•<•«>>uillLT r.o r and rr. r very nun ticjiiii ri to pi.ci 11v powder, cdiemicals and st

carries with it a licence that in peace time would considered outrageous. The entire atmosphere war is such as to reduce men to the level merely physical beings, to destroy ail that is spiritual and noble, and thus to increase the evils that wars are supposed uproot. Now there c

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It, ;ik. 11, .I I' L.' I 111 ' 1111 s ()l|, till' '<• iliM'iitariL'lr himself fri.m stars ''""xt tiililri'ssi'il liitn lis fi that it was more in with 11i,s eircuinstaners. I siv," ll' .w lonj; arc \vi And h -t ni^"_-icil When tlio embrace 'ointr to stnv here? '

is, and what it means the countless thousands who are suffering and dying in the trenches France and Flanders? possible that any good can eotno of it, that the ends tor which we are supposed to lighting—such, for example, the abolition of war---can conceivably lie attained when

desire for revenge, after ending), little before —and will ready and eager to try and win back what had taken from her. the plain tart is, and dispute it we we do not know what are lighting for. Mr. Ascpiith, it is said, has told us repeatedly what we are lighting for. lie has t

Then there is the immorality, and especially sex immorality, which war always carries with it. And in a colossal war like the present the dangers ahead in this respect are exceedingly great and may prove to fatal. Not only at the front, in garrisoned towns, and in the towns in c