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 globe in the following significant lines:

This is the song of the thousand men who are multiplied by twelve, Sorted and sifted, tested and tried, and muscled to dig and delve. They come from the hum of city and shop, they come from the farm and the field. And they plow the acres of ocean now, but tell me, what is their yield?

This is the song of the sixteen ships to buffet the battle and gale, And in every one we have thrown away a Harvard or a Yale. Behold here the powers of Pittsburg, the mills of Lowell and Lynn, And the furnaces roar and the boilers seethe, but tell me, what do they spin?

This is the song of the long, long miles from Hampton to the Horn, From the Horn away to the western bay whence our guns are proudly borne. A flying fleet and a host of hands to carry these rounds of shot! And behold they have girdled the globe by half, and what is the gain they have brought?

This is the song of the wasters, ay, defenders, if you please, Defenders against our fellows, with their wasters even as these, For we stumble still at the lesson taught since ever the years were young, That the chief defense of a nation is to guard its own hand and tongue.

This is the song of our sinning (for the fault is not theirs, but ours), That we chain these slaves to our galley-*ships as the symbol of our powers; That we clap applause, that we cry hurrahs, that we vent our unthinking breath, For oh, we are proud that we flaunt this flesh in the markets of dismal death.

—Christian Work and Evangelist.

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WAR, RACIAL FERTILITY AND

1890-98: 51 Millions Annual Cost of the Army and Navy of the United States 1902-10: 185 Millions

Overproduction of offspring—"race-suicide" by suffocation instead of by starvation—is responsible, we are now told, for the impulse that is driving the great nations toward war. Germany has outgrown her territory and must seize on some of Great Britain's colonial overflow territory; Japan is similarly plethoric with population and must disgorge into our Philippines. This is the simple explanation of modern militarism offered by Henry M. Hyde, writing under the title that heads this article, in The Technical World Magazine. His theory has the advantage that most of the great world-movements in recorded history may be traced to this cause, from the Aryan migration to the daily influx of Poles and Hungarians on our own shores. After dwelling on the recent huge increase of armaments, the hasty building of dreadnoughts, the war-scares in England, the eager toasts on German battleships "to the Day"—meaning the day when the Kaiser shall turn loose his dogs of war on Britain—the writer goes on:

What is the matter with the world? What is the disease from which civilization suffers? And where are the physicians who shall prescribe the necessary remedies?

Pending an answer to these ancient and disputed questions, it is desired to point out certain facts which may help to explain the present situation and to ask whether, because