THE PRICE OF DEVELOPMENT 



course, of material benefits. The benefits that come 

 from heroism and self-denial are of another order. 

 If the lamb inside the lion is a benefit to the lion, 

 what is it to the lamb? If Germany reaped advan- 

 tage by her invasion of Belgium, what did Belgium 

 reap? But the fate of the other party is the last 

 question that would ever occur to the Prussian 

 military mind. If the doctrine of frightfulness began 

 and ended at home, the world could not object. Be- 

 cause burned cities in modern times rise from their 

 ashes in new beauty and power, shall we therefore 

 seek to rejuvenate our cities by applying a match to 

 them? Cities rise from their ashes because of their 

 stored-up wealth and because of the arteries of 

 commerce and industry that flow through them. 

 Fire does not rejuvenate a dead tree nor a dead city, 

 nor does war rejuvenate a people who are in a state 

 of mortal ripening. It did not rejuvenate Rome in 

 ancient times, nor Spain in modern times, and it 

 does not appear to be rejuvenating Mexico very 

 fast, nor any of the South American republics. All 

 depends upon the stock you are trying to rejuve- 

 nate. 



Lord Roberts is quoted as saying, just before his 

 death, that war is necessary and salutary, and that 

 it is the only national tonic that can be prescribed 

 when peace begets degeneracy in an over-civilized 

 people. He looked upon Germany as the greatest 

 friend of the Allies when she declared war against 



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