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We have then clearly ln cur minds
how ENGLAND has been d%erunhfatns
since 100. and how bof poets have
safned her Like Jerusalem. she H.
alrradY morally destroyed. All events
take place 10 the soul. material hap.
p]eulnsa are but the capitalization of
those forces Let us nBw turn n
the present and watch the death.
aEony At the empire,
N.
I travelled through France from
Pontarllef to Dieppa, during the
mobilization. and confess 20 Infinite
pride ard pleasure IN the temper on
the people. The hour had struck,
Il was time to 60 10 business. That
was all. There was no h~yatefia, no
crowds crying "a Berlin. hardly
even enthusiasm. But no hesitation
or regret. Determination is the word.
In its full philosophical sense; 70
had taught the French a lesson, They
cid not want to fight, but they we're
prepared to fight; and, now war was
declared, they were fighting. Every
person automatically switched over
from the business Of peace to the
business of war. Politics dlsap-
peared; Socialism disappeared. ii
seemed as though the people
recognized in%tuitively that Nthese
were but the amusements Of leisure.
(The same mental attitude was, OF
course, equally firm In Germany.
Even Belgium, betrayed by its rulers
for British gold, earned the past
subsidies manfully. The people went
TO their double-cross erucihxion like
sheep to the slaughter. and as a
sheep before the shearers is dumb,
SO opened they not their mouths.1
After a week in Paris, a week Of
comradeship. | crossed to England,
and had the shock that only great
disgust can bring. Imagine a son
three years away from home. who
should return to find his mother
walking the streets had foolishly
believed that the magnitude Of the
catastrophe would have stripped off
sbams, shocked everyone into COM
mon sense, awakened manhood, and
the rest Of 1t. | am a poet, and
cannot understand stupidity But
the English had not realized the war
at all! On the contrary, the whole
OF the British press had gone madden
than ever. Only Bernard Shaw. Gun.
ninghame Graham, and Frank Harris.
Of all the world Of writer's, even tried
to keep their heads. There was
nothing but silly screams and coarse
jeers. The Crown Prince wa a
common thief; every German was a
murderer and a coward; he only
attacked women and children; he did
nothing but get drunk, and commit
rape, robbery, assassination, and can.
nibalism. The iron discipline OF the
German army disappeared ION paperl
with a stroke of the pen. Men whose
very lives depended on %self-control
obedience to orders, avoidance Of
every kind Of excess, were pictured
as a gang of lawless bandits frenzied
with drink. This horde of raying
savages was, however, destroying
the strongest fortresses in the world
as an avalanche destroys a chalet;
these drunken baby-killers chased the
British army as greyhounds chase a
hare. Observe the time taken In the
mastery retreat" from Mons. and
what becomes Of the story of stub
burn rearguard actions? "a little
British army goes a damned long
way" indeed, when the uhlans are
behind II.
They have recovered, now, because
the gentry have enlisted as priyates.
When the gentry are all killed of,
good night
To return to the moral attitude of
England. 'rhe majority we're frankly
bored. An internal nuisance. war,
In the height Of the holiday season!
Others were scared, laid In many
months supplies Of food, dug holes
beneath their cellars, and awaited
Zeppelins as a bird awaits a snake.
There was no sane body of public
opinion vocal, no one to see that, war
being war, the way to win was to get
q bigger and better army than your
enemy. Only Kitchener saved the
situation, and he had TO insist on a
practical dictatorship. They did all
they could TO tie him up. In the
whole country only he, Lord Roberts
and Sir Edward Grey we're trusted.
Lord Roberts was too old to act;
Sir Edward Grew was onlv known in