The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



What of 

 America? 



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whole ranks impartially. There is little play 

 for selection in modern war save what is 

 shown in the process of enlistment. 



America has grown strong with the 

 strength of peace, the spirit of democracy. 

 Her wars have been few. Were it not for 

 the mob spirit, they would have been still 

 fewer; but in most of them she could not 

 choose but fight. Volunteer soldiers have 

 swelled her armies, men who went forth of 

 their own free will, knowing whither they 

 were going, believing their acts to be right, 

 and taking patiently whatever the fates 

 might hold in store. 



The feeling for the righteousness of the 

 cause, "with the flavor of religion in it," 

 says Charles Ferguson, "has made the vol- 

 unteer the mighty soldier he has always 

 been since the days of Naseby and Marston 

 Moor." Only with volunteer soldiers can 

 democracy go into war. When America 

 fights with professional troops, she will be 

 no longer America. We shall then be, with 

 the rest of the militant world, under mob 

 rule. "It is the mission of democracy," says 

 Ferguson again, "to put down the rule of 



