A NEW ENGLAND.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1596, 10 August 1916, Page 4

A NEW ENGLAND.

Lord Rosebery, in a preface to a new book by Mrs Humphrey Ward, on “England’s Effort,” asks: “What is to be the outcome of this war as regards our own future? What effect will this war, with its heroism abroad and its sacrifice at home, have on ourselves? We seem justified,” he proceeds, “in thinking that we shall have found ourselves. Glorious as our race has been in the past, we myy look-forward to something nobler still. We see our warriors returning to us a new nation, raised by the stress and anguish of warfare tni higher conceptions of duty, citizenship, and partial ism. They will have proved'.themselves fitted for great'thiiigs,’llief-' will be encompassed with glory and honour, they wilfjead ,the ; , Mrs Humphrey. War’d, who has seen for herself the industrial revolution which the brought to British workshops, answers Lord Rosebery’s questions as follows: — “There will be a nCW wind blowing through England when this war is done. Not only will the scientific intelligence, the general education and the industrial plant of the nation have gained enonnously from this huge impetus of wav, but men and women, employers and employed, shaken perforce out of their old grooves, will look at each other, surely, with new eyes, in a world which has not been steeped for nothing in effort and sacrifice, in common griefs and a common passion of will.”