The Land And The Soldier (Paperback)

THE LAND AND THE SOLDIER - BY FREDERIC C. HOWE - 1909 - No one can doubt that we are at a turning-point in our national history. A new era has come upon us. We cannot stand still. We cannot return to the dd ways, the old abuses, the old stupidities. As with our international relations, so with the relations of classes and individuals inside our own nation, if they do not henceforth get better they must needs get worse, and that means moving toward an abyss. It is in our power to make the new era one of such progress as to repay us even for the immeasurable cost, the price in lives lost, in manhood crippled, and in homes desolated. Only by rising to the height of our enlarged vision of social duty can we do justice to the spirit generated in our people by the long effort of common aspiration and common suffering. To allow this spirit to die away unused would be a waste com- pared to which the material waste of the war would be a Iittle thing it would be a national sin, unpardonable in the eyes of our posterity. We stand at the bar of history for judgment, and we shall be judged by the use we make of this unique op- portunity. It is unique in many............