THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1648, 9 December 1916, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

The hour of reparation is approaching alike for the individuals as for tin* peoples on whom have fallen the blows of Germanic aggression.—Aristitit* Briand. What is (he fundamental evil ol militarism f Why, this that it both literally and metaphorically places arms in the hands of the asinine clement in human nature. William Archer. The fatal defect in modern civilisation is that the wisdom of the ages is forgotten, and the importance of developing a strong body to contain a sane mind is entirely overl ook ed. —La d y Ily r on.

Anv hesitation over measures ol social reconstruction, any denial ol

social justice, on the ground that (he nation cannot afford it, means, henceforth, only this, that the Government, speaking for the payers of super-fax, does not wish to aim'd it. —Sidney Wehh.

If the War Minister and the War Office are really not sinking “hospital fodder” for the British Army, lot them net. as if they were not, by instrueting medical officers, in emphatic terms, on no account to pass unlit men. —Theodore Thomas.

There can he no crisis tor reserves for Russia; there will be no need to employ the unlit and the maimed. She has limitless supplies of men —and such men, too! Their physique, endurance, and courage have never been surpassed. — Duke dc Mornv.

The politicians in Germany, luckily for us, have made its many Intel mistakes its our own. lint, like our incompetents, they have been saved so far from the results of their follies by the common working people, if Germany gels out of this muddle with any dignity at all left she will have to thank the man and the woman with the hoe. Tin* small holder, not the Army, is the backbone of Germany.—William Purvis.

The war will spell death to much beside German aggression. Prom (he furnace of conflict a new Britain will emerge. Having glimpsed the realities of Destiny in one blinding flash, we must never revert, to the shams and make-heiiefs which have polluted our public life and perverted our National purpose. Brave men will have died in their thousands for fin* love of Britain. Is it 100 much to ask that the rest of ns should learn In live for her in sincerity and in honour? —Horatio Bollomlev.