THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16178, 15 March 1916, Page 10

THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Pay—Pay— We must pay the price of victory if we mean to get it.—Rt. Hon. D.' Lloyd George. .'.„'•

Reality. War is the most intense form of reality with which most of us can ever become familiar.— JPyfe. ' ' Militarism and Conscription. , Militarism cannot rule without conscription, and conscription' prepares the way for militarism.—Dr. Clifford. . . ;.. Right Hakes Might.. Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.—Aba-, ham Lincoln. The, Higher Simplicity. • There are moments during battle when life becomes intensified, when men beI come supermen, when the impossible becomes simple.'—Sir lan Hamilton. . Wanted, i Superman. The man who, being victorious, will end the war, immediately when the vital in-* terests of his nation will allow it, must be hailed as the greatest man of our century .—Count Julius Andrassy. " The Universal Language. Englishmen can live on practically twothirdS of the land of the world, and converse 'in their own tongue, .whereas a German cannot travel.over his ; own'frontier without a knowledge of ' other languages.— E. Town. . .'" Danger. 'The neglect of intellectual things, the satisfaction with book knowledge, the inattention to facts, the concentration on physical prowess, and on a passive kind of : :\ material 'prosperity— widespread ienorance of natural facts even among our leader?, afld consequent contempt for investigation' and expert knowledge—that is another danger.—Sir Oliver,' 1 Lodged'.