THE DE-POETIZING OF WAR.
In a familiar passage of the "Kernel and the Husk," Dr. Abbott gives many instances of the progressive education of mankind by means of illusion. Trutlis are, he tells us, preserved in a husk of romance, until the time conies whan they are> ripe for assimilation. When one contrasts ancient and modern battle-pjctures, one is bound to confess that something similar has been taking place in the art of war. The descriptions of war we read of in the Iliad or in Froissart have a halo of picturesqueness and romance, that must be sought in vain in modern warfare. Even the Napoleonic and Crimean wars have their "thin red line," or thair "charge of the Light Brigade" to strike th* note of poetry among the carnage.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10636, 21 April 1900, Page 6
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