THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 1 November 1916, Page 10

THOUGHTS ON THE WAR.

Terms of Escape. Great Britain might have escaped the war, and lost her soul in dishonour.—Re v . T. J. Cox. The Quality of Bravery. The man who has never known what it is to be afraid can never perform an ict of bravery, for bravery is the quality that rises above fear.—Elizabeth Banks. Germany's Difficulty. No empire, not even that of Rome overrun by the barbarians, has ever been placed in a position of such difficulty ss our own.—Frankfurter Zeitung. And So Say Ail of Us I Let the whole British Nation forego any idea of a general holiday until our goa'l is reached. A speedy and decisive victory will then be ours Sir Douglas Haig. ° Pl#in Truth from Karl. For the first time in this war the military initiative has passed to the other side, ! Germany is fighting on the defensive almost everywhere—Karl von Wiegand. The Giant. England has a giant to fight in Germany and she should go forth prepared to fight a giant in the full knowledge of his strength, if he wou id not be further disappointed.—Ratledge Rutherford. Germany's Fatal Miscalculation. The most fatal miscalculation of German arrogance was the grotesque underestimate of the moral fibre of the British peoples in particular, and of the power of free institutions in genera!.—J. L. Garvin. Mere Delusions. The solidarity established by the war between England and Russia. France and England, and Russia and Japan, and firmly cemented for the time being by hood shed in common, is not in the nature of things.—Prince Bulow. The Briton. The Briton is the most competitive creature on the face of the earth save possib.y the American of British descent. We have a perpetual secret itch for competition, so deep that most of us do not know of -John Galsworthy. The Charter of Freedom. Materialism is the paralysis of the mind. If you want men not to be slaves you must recognise them as something elseas souls and as citizens: as beings having a positive status and charter of freedom in the nation— in the universe — G K. Chesterton.