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in the eternity before us will you be the factor in 

 civilization ? Is this condition of things to last for ever, 



and privation. Add to this the sum of misery of all the widows and 

 orphans of the slain, and then only a few of the most palpable results 

 have been taken into account." (" The Dawn of Civilization," J. C. 

 Spence, 1895, p. 66.) 



" The Prussian artillery had raked the French lines through and 

 through before their (the surgeons ) eyes ; and Dr. Warren confessed 

 to me that, short as was the time they had been on the battle-field, 

 he had seen sights so horrible that the recollection of them would 

 haunt him till his dying day." ..." I can understand that men 

 find a pleasure in studying the art of fighting, as they do in playing 

 a game of chess ; and I have allowed in my own case the fascination 

 which even its horrid reality is capable of exercising over one. But 

 for the man who deems it a pleasure and a glory to use the 

 science of war as a weapon wherewith to annihilate thousands of 

 human beings, for the delusion called ' prestige ' or in the game 

 of politics, I would have him to know that it is a foul and monstrous 

 thing, full of hideous suffering, cruelty, and injustice, with nothing to 

 redeem it, save the courage whereby such miseries are endured." . . . 

 " If people at home (and there are some who talk much around 

 their comfortable fires about going to war on every paltry provoca- 

 tion) could have seen the waggon-loads of half-frozen wounded 

 which were brought in to us on the night of the 4th, and those 

 again who lay outside the town without assistance, their wounds 

 uncared for, and exposed to the bitterly cold night air, how soon 

 they would change their idle tone ! how they would loathe and 

 .abominate the very name of war! " ("With an ambulance during 

 the Franco-German War," C. E. Eyan, F.R.C.S.I., M.E.C.P.I., 

 1896, pp. 254, 258.) 



(A most interesting book ; very instructive to those who may wish 

 to realize a FEW of the horrors of war, but the few are sufficient.) 



A cautious writer who thoroughly understands his subject con- 

 cludes his book with the following terrible forecast : " This tendency 

 towards expansion of British territory in the East is inevitable, 

 however much it may be regretted. To the far East over Burma 

 towards the Mekong River, beyond the Indus from Chitral to British 

 Baluchistan, it has spread, and in the future it must as certainly 



