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military hospital, packed with sick and wounded men,
that was set on fire and burned to the ground. And
there followed the terrible events of the Commune,
the savage acts, the ruin and horror when opposing
factions fought and killed one another in the streets of
Paris. There were the hatreds and hostilities between
Catholic religious leaders and the German government.
There was the civil strife and uproar, the bloodshed
and havoc brought on between the partisans of
the Republic and the Carlists in Spain.
Only too many such instances are available to demonstrate the fact that Europe is morally uncivilized. Since the writer has no wish to cast aspersions on anyone He has confined Himself to these few examples. It is clear that no perceptive and well-informed mind can countenance such events. Is it right and proper that peoples among whom, diametrically opposed to the most desirable human behavior, such horrors take place, should dare lay claim to a real and adequate civilization? Especially when out of all this no results can be hoped for except the winning of a transient victory; and since this outcome never endures, it is, to the wise, not worth the effort.
Time and again down the centuries, the German
state has subdued the French; over and over, the kingdom
of France has governed German land. Is it permissible
that in our day 600,000 helpless creatures
should be offered up as a sacrifice to such nominal and
temporary uses and results? No, by the Lord God! Even
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