The Blood of the Nation 



pitfalls of the great city, from hope and 

 joy to absinthe and the morgue. With 

 all its pitiful aspects the one which 

 concerns us is the steady drain on the 

 life-blood of the nation, its steady low- 

 ering of the average of the parent 

 stock of the future. 



But far more potent for evil to the 

 race than all these influences, large and 

 small, is the one great destroyer, 

 War. War for glory, war for gain, 

 war for dominion, its effect is the same, 

 whatever its alleged purpose. 



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