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will degrade us, crush the soul out of us. Blood and iron! It will
become our God too: the God of all the world. You say we are going into
it with clean hands, this time. How long will they keep clean? The
people who only live for making money: how long do you think they will
remain silent? What has been all the talk of the last ten years but of
capturing German trade. We shall be told that we owe it to our dead to
make a profit out of them; that otherwise they will have died in vain.
Who will care for the people but to use them for killing one another--to
hound them on like dogs. In every country nothing but greed and hatred
will be preached. Horrible men and women will write to the papers crying
out for more blood, more cruelty. Everything that can make for anger and
revenge will be screamed from every newspaper. Every plea for humanity
will be jeered at as 'sickly sentimentality.' Every man and woman who
remembers the ideals with which we started will be shrieked at as a
traitor. The people who are doing well out of it, they will get hold of
the Press, appeal to the passions of the mob.
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