The Days of a Man 



official thus addressed them: 'In the name of Mendel, 

 Galton, Havelock Ellis, and David Starr Jordan, I 

 pronounce you man and wife !' ' 



4 



During this general period the question of peace 

 was steadily coming to the front, the world over, 

 among people with intelligent interest in public 

 affairs. Hoover said to me: 'I have never before 

 heard so much talk of peace, nor seen so many men 

 buckling on their side arms." The two phenomena 

 are of course naturally connected. To be prepared 

 for war x is to threaten it, and its menace stirs the 

 activity of those opposed to it on principle. 



1 THE GOD OF WAR 



'To safeguard peace we must prepare for war " 

 I know that maxim; it was forged in hell. 

 This wealth of ships and guns inflames the vulgar 

 And makes the very war it guards against. 

 The God of War is now a man of business, 

 With vested interests. 



So much sunk Capital, such countless callings, 

 The Army, Navy, Medicine, the Church 

 To bless and bury Music, Engineering, 

 Red-tape Departments, Commissariats, 

 Stores, Transports, Ammunition, Coaling-stations, 

 Fortifications, Cannon-foundries, Shipyards, 

 Arsenals, Ranges, Drill-halls, Floating Docks, 

 War-loan Promoters, Military Tailors, 

 Camp-followers, Canteens, War Correspondents, 

 Horse-breeders, Armourers, Torpedo-builders, 

 Pipeclay and Medal Venders, Big Drum Makers, 

 Gold Lace Embroiderers, Opticians, Buglers, 

 Tent-makers, Banner-weavers, Powder-mixers, 

 Crutches and Cork Limb Manufacturers, 

 Balloonists, Mappists, Heliographers, 

 Inventors, Flying Men, and Diving Demons, 

 Beelzebub and all his hosts, who, whether 

 In Water, Earth, or Air, among them pocket 

 When Trade is brisk a million pounds a week! 



ISRAEL ZANGWILL, igi2 



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