The Art of Living in Wartime (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Art of Living in WartimePeace in our time is something that our generation seems destined not to know. Some day human life may settle down and become placid and cozy again, but when that day comes you and I are going to be a lot older, if not positively decrepit. Just picking up the pieces after the war will take a long time and use many hands. And meanwhile you and I must live and keep our sanity and count these stormy hours not altogether lost.Peace will never bring us back to this present year of our lives and let us live it again under more benign conditions. It will not give us again our youthful love or the babyhood of our children or the full powers of our maturity. Whatever we count dear now we must make the most of, however the shrapnel may fall. There is an integrity of the intimate life, a poise of the spirit, which we must set ourselves to keep in the midst of mass propaganda that seems to pull us asunder and scatter our minds and sympathies all over this disordered planet. In our homes, in our social life, in the fragments of leisure that we can still salvage we must build for ourselves our personal shelters against devastation from abroad.Most of the arts by which we may fabricate these personal shelters for the soul are wartime adaptations of those pleasant employments which we were wont to call, in easier times, our arts of leisure. But even to breathe the word "leisure" seems frivolous at a time when most of us seem to have an indefinite sentence to hard labor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.