Let the authorities tell us the loss of all communities in material wealth, and the eugenist speak of the blow to civilisation.
Let all the accumulated facts be on record in every public library in the world, and let them be available even to the illiterate.
Here, then, when the greatest of world-tragedies draws to its appointed close, is the means I would choose to render its repetition impossible, believing as I do that ignorance is the root from which all evil springs.
FOOTNOTE:
[2] A schoolmaster in Austria for saying as much as this was sentenced to several years' hard labour.
XXIV LORD FRENCH
My first meeting with Field-Marshal Viscount French, so long Commander-in-Chief of the "contemptible little army" that has made history, dates back to the South African War. My latest meeting with him before he returned from France, was in August, 1914. On each occasion he was on the point of leaving for the front.