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house-fly, men who have had reputations for 

 fairness and justness which might have made 

 them judges, yet they have stated that they 

 would gladly assist in hanging a fellow-creature 

 who owned certain newspapers, the views of 

 which fail to accord with their own, and yet a 

 man they had never met and could not have 

 known. Religious hatred is equally bitter and 

 equally to be regretted. 



" GR-R-R there, go, my heart's abhorrence ! 



Water your damned flower-pots, do! 

 If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, 

 God's blood, would not mine kill you ? " 



How far hatred is effective in war-time, and how 

 far it can be effectively worked up by systematic 

 effort, is difficult to say. I don't honestly think 

 it can be effectively exploited with our British 

 troops. An officer recently visited one of our 

 trenches where some German prisoners were, and 

 at an hour when a " sing-song " was in full swing 

 was pleased to hear the Sergeant in the chair 

 announcing " Item No. 4. Mister Fritz and 

 Mister Moritz will now oblige with ' The 'y mn 

 of 'ate/ " 



On the other hand, Le Bon felt that hatred 

 played a very large part in the varying events 



