In Peace 



write the history of the future. It is 

 the " man who is left " in the march of 

 history who gives to history its future 

 trend. By the " man who is left " we 

 mean simply the man who remains at 

 home to become the father of the family 

 as distinguished from the man who 

 in one way or another is sacrificed for 

 the nation's weal or woe. If any class 

 of men be destroyed by political or 

 social forces or by the action of institu- 

 tions, they leave no offspring, and their 

 like will cease to appear. 



" Send forth the best ye breed." This 

 is Kipling's cynical advice to a nation 

 which happily can never follow it. But 

 could it be accepted literally and com- 

 pletely, the nation in time would breed 

 only second-rate men. By the sacrifice 

 of their best or the emigration of the 

 best, and by such influences alone, have 

 races fallen from first-rate to second- 

 rate in the march of history. 



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