This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...once it rises insistent and imminent in deadly shape, the secret element of stoicism hidden beneath this inculcated optimism reveals itself. For if one probes to the core of this English code, one finds there always a moral force, a determination to resist whatever misfortune may come along--a "no" opposed to all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...once it rises insistent and imminent in deadly shape, the secret element of stoicism hidden beneath this inculcated optimism reveals itself. For if one probes to the core of this English code, one finds there always a moral force, a determination to resist whatever misfortune may come along--a "no" opposed to all enfeebling and disintegrating emotion. How many families has not the war cast into mourning? They are expected to be silent, one might say, to hide their grief. Grief belongs to privacy: there let it stay! In society the social side of man should alone be seen, with the smile and the manners of society. This rule counts for much in that appearance of tranquillity, of indifference to the war, of "life as usual" which, but yesterday, England presented to a foreign eye; it goes far, too, in accounting for that seeming carelessness--one might even say frivolity ("ils ne sont pas serieux")--at which some of us, who had seen the English at the front, sometimes wondered. They could die in the most heroic manner, but would rather go through the retaking of a trench than give up their five o'clock tea; whilst behind the lines they went on playing football. On the whole, they seemed to regard the war much as a football match and looked more like sportsmen than soldiers.1 Such, indeed, they are, and must be. The same creed which leaves the Englishman entirely to himself, to his conscience and his religion when it's a question of accepting suffering or death, forces him, in the presence of others, to use terms and manners which are almost those of sport. We have already pointed out that some of the ideas associated with this word to-day by the English are entirely moral. It is significant that the phrase, "play the game,"...
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