The 

 Human 

 Harvest 



[114] 



wars," so like centuries of wisdom and vir- 

 tue are needed to restore to our nation its 

 lost inheritance of patriotism, — not the ca- 

 pacity for patriotic talk, for of that there 

 has been no abatement, but of that faith and 

 truth which " on war's red touchstone rang 

 true metal." We can never know what 

 might have been. We can never know how 

 great is our actual loss, nor can we know 

 how far the men that are fall short of the 

 men that ought to have been. 



The gap in our picked and chosen, 

 The long years may not fill. 



An English University professor on a late 

 visit to America told me that his most vivid 

 impression came from a casual reference to 

 the one hundred and fifteenth (or some sim- 

 ilarly numbered) regiment of Massachu- 

 setts volunteers — that a little district like 

 Massachusetts should contribute 1 1 5,000 

 men to the Civil War gave an impression of 

 the mightiness and the cost of that strug- 

 gle he had gained in no other way. 



It may be that the vexing problems of to- 

 day, the problems of greed and lawlessness, 



