Enforced peace; . GUE TO ENFORCE PEACE: A REPLY TO CRITICS In a small flower shop in the humbler quarters of aSouthern city a young hospital nurse, still in training, isasking the price of roses, her rounded cheek, itself a rose,half turned to the open door. The daily tasks of thehospital training school are exhausting. But she hasmanaged to embroider a workbag—a wedding presentwrought by her own hands—and she seeks to adorn thepackage with a few buds. Embroideries and carvedwood, chiseled wrought metal, music andthe painters art and letters, she is aware, give life a richsetting. T
Enforced peace; . GUE TO ENFORCE PEACE: A REPLY TO CRITICS In a small flower shop in the humbler quarters of aSouthern city a young hospital nurse, still in training, isasking the price of roses, her rounded cheek, itself a rose,half turned to the open door. The daily tasks of thehospital training school are exhausting. But she hasmanaged to embroider a workbag—a wedding presentwrought by her own hands—and she seeks to adorn thepackage with a few buds. Embroideries and carvedwood, chiseled wrought metal, music andthe painters art and letters, she is aware, give life a richsetting. To tlie question she puts there is no reply,only a thoughtful look. Such a voice as is an ex-cellent thing in woman repeats it. Then the woman ofthe shop, quietly: I heard you the first time, dear, and Ive heard yourvoice before. You were good, so good, to my Ahce atthe hospital. How badly she was burned by the over-turned lamp! And how patient to the end! Then, turning to her boy, she bids him give the lady128. THEODORE MARBURG, , Chairman of the Executive Committee, League to Enforce Peace ENFORCED PEACE 129 all the flowers she may need. And she herself pins awhite rose on the young nurses bosom. Now, the quahties disclosed in this simple incidentare not mere ornaments of men. They constitute thevery basis and condition of all progress. The philosophyof ruthless suppression and domination is based on thebiological principle of the advantage to the individualof fierceness and cunning in the struggle for this philosophy overlooks a conflicting and morefar-reaching biological principle, namely, the superioradvantage of group action conditioned on buck standing on guard while the herd feeds, thewild goat coming back to the top of the pass to seewhether there be a wolf or other enemy following beforehe moves on with the herd! What have we here but thebegiimings of altruism? It is altruism which alonemakes group action or cooperation poss
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