The Great Resolve

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Excerpt from The Great Resolve: An Essay on the European War and the Possible Settlements Thereof, In Two Parts, Patriotism and Devolution, the Solution Behold, in Europe, a great wave of patriotism in mid career. There are, at the same time, other phenomena, some correlative, some incongruous, - as, for example, a clash of industries and political ideals, a nation believing itself stifled and struggling for air, a religious revival with priests and warriors, shoulder to shoulder, bearing icons, there are also sluggards, skulkers and unwilling soldiers, a pistol nosing them in the back. But over and around these more or less familiar landmarks of an embattled plain presses a weighty flood whose final source, a long way back, lay in untilled valleys affording livelihood to the erect, if simple, denizens thereof - hence to be defended by them unitedly against all comers, until such time as growing numbers should compel excursions down into the unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.