THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16035, 29 September 1915, Page 10

THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

A Nation's Besmirched Soul. Naught is so lasting as when a nation's soul feels shamo!—Heinrich von Treitschke. Tangle or Organisation. Splendid isolation is no longer practicable in the modern world of international relationships.— J. A. Hobson. Hun Svedtn as Prophet. Germany will win or be. wiped out from the earth. There is no third alternative. That is my firm conviction.—Sven Hedin. Cost Not for the Future. To throw all the cost of this war upon future generations would be the greatest disgrace to the present.— St. Aldwyn. Not the People's Fault. This is a people's war surely enough, but just as surely the people had no hand in bringing it about.—Frederick Scott Oliver. Business Unusual. Higher technical education diffused fcimong the people would be a necessity if our commerce was i$ be maintained in the new situation that would arise.— Haldane. Hearts are Trumps. Every woman has four hearts—the heart of a child, the heart of a bride, the heart of a sister, the heart of a mother. As for man, he has ever in reality but 1 one heart— heart of a warrior Yvette Guilbert. Our Needs. We want rifles, we want guns', we want shells, fuses, chemicals, explosives. There is one thing we want less, and that is red tape ; it takes such a long time to unwind.— Lloyd George. All for the State. The man who does not realise that if lie is not serving or helping the State in some way at this moment he is falling criminally short of his duty will have a serious, a bitter, a tragic account to render to himself.—Lord Rosebery. Good lor the Soul. The deepest and worthiest retort to the German proclamation of virtue would be a confession of sin. The savage says, " I am & good German." And the civilised man answers, " I am a bad Englishman, and altogether unworthy of England "— Mr. G. K. Chesterton. Decision, not Diplomacy. Let our enemies make no mistake. It was not to sign a precarious peace, a troubled and fleeting truce interposed between a shortened war and one more terrible still, it was not to be exposed to-morrow to fresh attacks and mortal perils, that Franco has risen in all her strength vibrating to the virile strains of the Marseillaise.—President Poincare. A New Experiment. If women are thinking any separate thoughts of their own at this juncture these thoughts probabljr take the form of an added determination that women should bo made citizens and included in the counsels of the nations, so that the world may • start # afresh on new lines, with a new experiment, having faffed on the old lines and with the old experiment. —Beatrice Harradeu.