The Independent . d thoroly. Themilitary mind will never be satisfiedwith such extremely limited power asis consistent with free secure first-class military pro-tection a republic must be preparedto sacrifice all the qualities which mostmake it worth protecting. The military mind is the direct an-tithesis of the democratic mind, but theconflict between the two in the coun-tries of western Europe is complicatedby the fears, entertained by the respec-tive democracies, of permanent domina-tion by a foreign conqueror. Americandemocracy, immune, by reason of hersize and geographical
The Independent . d thoroly. Themilitary mind will never be satisfiedwith such extremely limited power asis consistent with free secure first-class military pro-tection a republic must be preparedto sacrifice all the qualities which mostmake it worth protecting. The military mind is the direct an-tithesis of the democratic mind, but theconflict between the two in the coun-tries of western Europe is complicatedby the fears, entertained by the respec-tive democracies, of permanent domina-tion by a foreign conqueror. Americandemocracy, immune, by reason of hersize and geographical situation, fromthis fear, is in the happy position ofbeing able, if she chooses, to fight upona clear issue; and it is almost certain-ly in America that the question will besettled, whether it shall be the twenti-eth or some subsequent century thatwill witness the final vindication of thedemocratic, and the final disappearanceof the military , Massachusetts The Independent-Harpers Weekly NEWS-PICTORIAL. @ tnderwuud <t Lnatiwivd Shell holes and bayonet charge—the battle of Soyecourt, photographed by an air scout. After days of artillery fire theFrench soldiers are leaving their trenches in the foreground to attack. In the dis-tance is the burning village B i The Independent N E W S ~ PICTORIAL Harpers T^Peektt,
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