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Rh grow up they, much more than we, will be able to further this great revolution of the state of man.... Mundy, I feel sure that this is no idle dream—it is too beautiful for that; beautiful because its prospect satisfies as no dream ever can.'

As for the pacifists who protested that our one aim should have been to make peace as quickly as possible on the best terms we could get, he saw too clearly to wish for that and wrote, under the hourly menace of death, 'Though war is so inhuman, especially in its utter severance of man from everything for which he cares, it is infinitely preferable to peace while yet the devil has not been cast out of Germany.' And again, 'One thing is certain—we must never, never lay up for our children a heritage such as has been bequeathed to us. It is not right, it is not fair, it is vastly inhuman and too devilish to be anything but evil to the core.... Peace now means many things. It means first and foremost and very personally the saving of many, many lives. It means that the boys who