AFTER THE WAR
THE VISIONS OF THE PRIMATE AND LORD ROSEBERY, " Two . eloquent addresses dealing withi "after the war" were made on a recent day in London, ono by the Archbishop of Canterbury, preaching in Westminster Abboy, and another by Lord Rosebcry, as Chancellor of London University. The Archishop of Canterbury said a century or two henco there would appear a history of this great time, and a vision arose of what he would like the historian, to bo able to say. It was t'.at among the manifold reconstruction plans there would be the marshalling in London of a company of men and women who could best found and constitute a popular university, fashioning it as an Imperial centre, sacred as well as secular, on the broadest conceivable basis. It would ba a centre to which tho best of the younjf .'men and women from all tho Dominions might come—a university so splendidly equipped and housed as to symbolise the citizens' care for what was most worthy in tho nation's and the Empire's life.
Lord Rosebery said: Only one thing is absolutely certain, that the war, financially speaking, will leave .ill the combatants, whether victorious or otherwise, pretty much in the position of the Kilkenny cats, that is to say, financially exhausted. It will mean general impoverishment all over Europe, both of tno individual and of the State, and that impoverishment must immediately produce new social conditions. That is a grave outlook. In tho next place, no one knows whether the condition of affairs after tho war will bo a real and permanent peace or a constant and armed anticipation of war. It depends largely, of course, on. the result of the conflict in which we are engaged. Our millions of men will return with a new spirit and a now view of the world. They will have become from men, supermen, for they must inevitably control tho future of this country. They will bring back character, self-respect, and respect for others.' But character is tho inestimable asset which they will bring to this, country. What is this war but a conflict of character, conflict between tho gallant, reckless, confidant Britons, and the cold, calculating nation of assassins, able through a- wholo generation to dovote all their resources of science and knowledge to tho preparation of a hideous conspiracy against their neighbours and the liberties of all men? If the Prussian wins it will encloso Europo in a coffin with a Prussian sentinel to guard it)"
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2823, 14 July 1916, Page 5
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416AFTER THE WAR Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2823, 14 July 1916, Page 5
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