This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...picture 1 But do not imagine that the Prussian does not mean it all. The nation has to realise that, and it has not quite done so yet. It will be idle then to talk of small nationalities--not even gallant, brave nationalities like those represented by the Serbian Minister. It will be idle to talk of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...picture 1 But do not imagine that the Prussian does not mean it all. The nation has to realise that, and it has not quite done so yet. It will be idle then to talk of small nationalities--not even gallant, brave nationalities like those represented by the Serbian Minister. It will be idle to talk of small nationalities, though they may know how to die when greater nations lie prostrate. That is what the nation must realise. The nation must raise itself to a full comprehension of all that is involved in the struggle. It is the duty of the Press to teach it. It is the task of the Press to lift up the nation to the true level of heroism which is needed, and to keep it at that high level above sordid interests. Pray God the Press does not use its mighty influence to drag it down. The Valour of our Army. The soldiers are doing their duty. This landing in the Dardanelles is one of the finest feats of arms ever recorded in history. All brave, all valiant, all prepared to face death for their country, and worse, to face torture. I am not talking of officers high in command, I am not talking of veterans inured to discipline and to facing danger, I am talking of the ordinary common soldier among us, whom you and I know. It seems but a few weeks ago that we knew them as just ordinary men, pursuing in quiet and unostentatious way their every-day avocations with nothing apparently to distinguish them in mind or heart from their fellows. When the call came they offered their lives to their country without demonstration, just as if they were pursuing their daily task. The next thing you hear about them is in some terrible battle, with grim valour marching through horror and carnage without flinching; yes, and thousands of men of exactly the same kind of...
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