ABSTRACT
Much that has been written and said during the war by eminent men will not be pleasant reading to them in the years to come. The famous ninety-three German professors will never point with pride to their manifesto. Nothing will altogether equal the books and statements which promised to wipe out a whole people. There will be articles by American professors, one or two of them at Harvard perhaps, which will read like the words of a British Duchess at a garden party for the benefit of Belgian refugees. That to the outer world France was silent and steady and that no hysterical whine was uttered, that the common people of all the nations, not understanding the diplomacy which made the war, struggled for what they believed to be a disinterested cause, that the British soldier fought with humorous contempt and preserved in trenches a large measure of that kindly humanity and unpretentious gallantry which are badge of his courage.
