stances, it is doubtless true that better men 

 fell on both sides when "Kentish Sir Byng 

 stood for the King" than when the British 

 arms forced the opium trade on China. No 

 doubt, in our own country better men fell 

 at Bunker Hill or Gettysburg than at Cerro 

 Gordo or Chapultepec. The lofty cause de- 

 mands the lofty sacrifice. 



It is the shame of England that most of 

 her many wars in our day have cost her very 

 little. They have been scrambles of the mob 

 or with the mob, not triumphs of democ- 

 racy. 



There was once a time when the struggles 

 of armies resulted in a survival of the fit- 

 test, when the race was indeed to the swift 

 and the battle the strong. The invention of 

 "villainous gunpowder" has changed all 

 this. Except the kind of warfare called 

 guerilla, the quality of the individual has 

 ceased to be much of a factor. The clown 

 can shoot down the hero, and, in the words 

 of Charles F. Lummis, he "doesn't have to 

 look the hero in the face while he shoots." 

 The shell destroys the clown and hero 

 alike, and the machine-gun mows down 



The 

 Human 



Harvest 



The Sur- 

 ^injal of 

 the fittest 



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