The Blood of the Nation 



when the British arms forced the opium 

 trade on China. No doubt, in our own 

 country better men fell at Bunker Hill 

 or Cowpens than at Cerro Gordo or 

 Chapultepec. The lofty cause demands 

 the lofty sacrifice. 



It is the shame of England that 

 most of her many wars in our day have 

 cost her very little. They have been 

 scrambles of the mob or with the mob, 

 not triumphs of democracy. 

 I There was once a time when the 

 struggles of armies resulted in a sur- 

 vival of the fittest, when the race was 

 indeed to the swift and the battle to 

 the strong. The invention of "vil- 

 lanous gunpowder" has changed all 

 this. Except the kind of warfare 

 called guerilla, the quality of the in- 

 dividual has ceased to be much of a 

 factor. The clown can shoot down the 

 hero, and " doesn't have to look the 

 hero in the face as he does so." The 



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