Microbes—See [Cleansing, Difficulty of].
MILITANT EVANGELISM
Robert Collyer told me the other day of a big-hearted, big-fisted old clergyman in Yorkshire who was so determined to convert the wild, wicked dwellers on the moors that when they refused to come into church on Sunday, he would rush out of his pulpit, spring into a crowd of cock-fighters outside the chapel, knock some of them down with his brawny fist, collar them, drag them in, and then administer gospel truths right and left to the rascals.—James T. Fields.
(2023)
MILITARISM
This is merely what eight years’ increase in army and navy has cost the American people:
Average annual cost of army and navy for the eight years preceding the Spanish War (1890–1898), $51,500,000.
Average annual cost of army and navy for the eight years since the Spanish War (1902–1910), $185,400,000.
Average yearly increase in the latter period as compared with the former, $134,000,000, making a total increase in eight years of $1,072,000,000, or 360 per cent.
This eight-year increase exceeds the national debt by $158,000,000.