. In old Quebec and other sketches. ^ universal acclaimthe man who for right and truth exposes hisown life, by what logic does that become evilin a nation, which in the individual is honourand virtue ? We must meet and conquer evilin the form it happens to take, and if one ofthese forms be an armed host working wrongeither by its own spontaneous impulse, or atthe bidding of a master, what new law comesinto operation whereby we are prevented fromexposing our lives in this conflict as right-eously as we expose them in conflict with thewinds and waters in our search after scientifictruth or for t
. In old Quebec and other sketches. ^ universal acclaimthe man who for right and truth exposes hisown life, by what logic does that become evilin a nation, which in the individual is honourand virtue ? We must meet and conquer evilin the form it happens to take, and if one ofthese forms be an armed host working wrongeither by its own spontaneous impulse, or atthe bidding of a master, what new law comesinto operation whereby we are prevented fromexposing our lives in this conflict as right-eously as we expose them in conflict with thewinds and waters in our search after scientifictruth or for the produce of distant lands tominister to our needs and luxuries ? It seems to come to this, that war is amongthe various agencies by which mans will hasto meet and conquer evil ; and that like allthose agencies it may be either a noble dis-cipline or a degrading or brutalizing excite-ment of the passions. Which it will be, inany case, depends much upon the motives ofthe nation which urges it, and on the general. SOME OF THE MONUMENTS OF QUEBEC. AND OTHER SKETCHES. lol tone of morality among its people. If a nationholds national power as a trust, and if itsduties towards its ow^n people have not beenmiserably neglected, war becomes in the handsof such a nation a divineinstrument of justice,and the men who carry it on are sublimedinto the conscious ministers of eternal right. Only a thoroughly materialistic misinterpre-tation of Christianity, a general epicureanismof habit, and confused notions about whatdetermines the eternal well-being of man,could ever have led to such monstrous doctrinesas those propounded by Peace fanatics inreference to recent wars. We turn from suchtheories to the facts, and find war looking allthat is noblest and most manly in a nation,making heroes of peasants and of idlers, hush-ing the mean jar of faction, except among thebasest of mankind, and stirring in the uni-versal heart of a people a strange, delightfulsense of brotherhood and unity. And, ifsta
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