Civilisation 1914-1918

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_) and small capitals are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept.
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GEORGES DUHAMEL
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY
T. P. CONWIL-EVANS
THE SWARTHMORE PRESS LTD (formerly trading as Headley Bros. Publishers Ltd)
72 OXFORD STREET, LONDON, W. 1
1919
There is no doubt, too, that posterity will acclaim it as a remarkable work. For it is something more than a human document of the war. One feels in the poignant experiences of the few French soldiers, depicted by M. Duhamel, the tragic fate of twentieth-century man—the Machine Age man—in the grip of the scientific monster he has created for himself. These intimate pictures have the cumulative effect of an epic in which the experiment of humanity is menaced by man’s own inventiveness and heroism.