Man, "master of cunning," had made for himself ships, ploughs, and houses, had tamed the horse and the bull; had learned how to snare wild creatures for food, had developed speech, intelligence, civilisation.

Marvels indeed! But had it ever occurred to such a Greek to ponder the general stimulus given to human faculty by war?
Probably, for the wise Greek had thought of most things, and some reader of these pages who knows his rich literature better than I do, will very likely remember how and where.

Modern history, indeed, is full of examples, from the Crusades onward.

But there can never have been any such demonstration of it as this war has yielded.

The business of peace is now, largely, to turn to account the discoveries of the war--in mechanics, chemistry, electricity, medical science, methods of organisation, and a score of other branches of human knowledge, and that in the interests of life, and not of death.
For the human loss of the war there is no comfort, except in those spiritual hopes and convictions by which ultimately most men live.