WHAT THE WAR IS TEACHING (CLAS

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Excerpt from What the War Is TeachingHE world is poor because it has too T few prophets. It has many his torians, and no one would deny the importance of an accurate statement of the facts both of past and of current history. But if one must distinguish, it is not so important to know the facts as to know the meaning of the facts. Truth is not only greater than fiction but greater than fact. The philosophy of history is more valuable than its chronicles. We need in terpreters who cmr'éak through the crust of mere events and show us mo tives, meanings, tendencies, outcomes. And these men are prophets.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.