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great victory, with the wreckage of medi- 

 aeval autonomy to clear up, our fears are 

 lest we may fail to control the fretful forces 

 of Caliban, and our hopes are to rebuild Je- 

 rusalem in this green and pleasant land. 



Never before in its long evolution has the 

 race realized its full capacity. Our fathers 

 have told us, and we ourselves have known, 

 of glorious sacrifices; but the past four 

 years have exhausted in every direction the 

 possibilities of human effort. And, as usual, 

 among the nations the chief burden has 

 fallen on that weary Titan , the Motherland, 



''Bearing on shoulders immense, 



. Atlantean, the load 

 Well-nigh not to be borne 

 Of the too vast orb of her fate." 



Not alone did she furnish the sinews of 

 war, but she developed a spirit that made 

 defeat impossible. 



No w r onder war has advocates, to plead 

 the heroic clash of ideals, the purging of a 



