INTRODUCTION 17 



knowledge of the French people and an inability to per- 

 ceive their deeper qualities all this, occasionally heard 

 in the past, has been forever silenced by the War, re- 

 vealing a devotion to the State, a quiet but unyielding 

 persistence in the defense of national ideals, which no 

 opponent can overcome. The inspiring vision of war- 

 swept France, indomitable in the face of sudden invasion, 

 will draw to her universities in the coming days of peace 

 many a student who would taste for himself the quali- 

 ties he has admired and envied from the comfortable 

 security of the United States. 

 PARIS, September, 1916. 



