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imagined spread of education and science in Germany. It affords 

 to all men a lesson, however, that the moral sense of a nation 

 requires educating, as well as the intellect ; that a regard for truth 

 and for the sanctity of a promise are more important possessions, 

 than a knowledge of recent discoveries and inventions ; and that 

 the intellectual progress of a country is to be measured by the 

 intelligent participation of every citizen in the moral and mental 

 conditions of the race." 



Passing to other phases of the war, among the wonders of 

 the modern world we may certainly include wireless telegraphy, 

 the telephone, the motor, the aeroplane, the submarine, antiseptics 

 and antitoxins, and the X-rays. All these are extensively in use 

 in the war, and they are profoundly influencing the results. 

 Wireless telegraphy, the aeroplane and the submarine may now be 

 recognised as indispensable agencies in a successful campaign, 

 while the use of antiseptics and antitoxins should contribute very 

 largely to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded and to prevent the 

 loss of thousands of valuable lives. In some campaigns, and 

 notably in the South African War, it is stated that many more 

 lives were lost through disease than in actual fighting. With 

 proper precautions, typhoid fever, that devastator of armies, need 

 no longer be feared if anti-typhoid vaccine is universally used. 

 While the service of science appears to make war more deadly in 

 some aspects, it also provides many palliatives whereby some of 

 the worse horrors of war may be greatly reduced. 



This war is remarkable for its silence. The Allies have 

 worked together so harmoniously for a common cause that they 

 have completely lost sight of their peculiar national interests for 

 the sake of the common victory. President Poincare used a happy 

 phrase recently when he spoke of the " glorious anonymity " of 

 the courage shown by the Allied forces and the grandeur of the 

 collective soul in which are merged all the hopes of the com- 

 batants. All personal ambitions are sunk in the spirit of brother- 

 hood in which the French and all the Allied Armies are waging 

 this war. There is a great difference between our temperament 

 and the French, but we understand each other now through all 

 that difference and the barrier of language. As regards the 

 British troops, their splendid courage and endurance have con- 

 clusively proved that there is no decadence in valour and forti- 

 tude, and they have shown against overwhelming odds great 

 heroism and maintained the best traditions of the Anglo-Saxon 

 race. In the present war anything less like Napoleon's way of 

 making war it would be difficult to imagine. For this the aero- 

 plane is largely responsible. It sees everything from its elevated 

 vantage point. It sees troops on the march or being transported 

 in trains, it notes the number of Army Corps, the proportion of 

 the different arms, and all the details of the vast machine of war. 

 In fact, to use a familiar phrase, it is like playing bridge with 

 your opponent looking over your shoulder. Thus has science- 



