A world in perplexity . nds, which takes awayour breath and paralyzes our thoughts. Before wehave had time to guess whither events are leading us,we find ourselves in the center of the storm. . .Human imagination is stunned by so sudden, so tre-mendous, and so unexpected a catastrophe. When men of long and clear vision take a soberlook at the situation as it exists today, they are forcedto pronounce this a distempered world, and to saythat if ever the world saw a day of need, this isthe day. We stand, says one, in the presence ofa world-tragedy. And the editor of the New YorkEvening Sun (Aug.
A world in perplexity . nds, which takes awayour breath and paralyzes our thoughts. Before wehave had time to guess whither events are leading us,we find ourselves in the center of the storm. . .Human imagination is stunned by so sudden, so tre-mendous, and so unexpected a catastrophe. When men of long and clear vision take a soberlook at the situation as it exists today, they are forcedto pronounce this a distempered world, and to saythat if ever the world saw a day of need, this isthe day. We stand, says one, in the presence ofa world-tragedy. And the editor of the New YorkEvening Sun (Aug. 8, 1914) asks, Did such strange The Nations at War 21 cross-currents ever before flow across a page of his-tory? These alarming conditions have not sprung up dur-ing a night. They are of long standing, and havebeen gradually growing worse. Their existence hasnot been clearly seen nor fully realized. A false se-curity has blinded our eyes. Implicit trust in a civili-zation that seemed deep and broad and high, led us to. © Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. American Soldiers Learning French Words and Phrases imagine that it was slowly but surely triumphing overthe forces of evil. But the tragic war now devastatingthe world has awakened us to truer conceptions. Whatappeared to be a great, abiding, protecting civilization,proved to be but a thin veneer over the worst passionsof the natural man. Mankind Back in the Primeval Forest The utter failure of science, philosophy, interna-tional treaties and alliances, and also the religions of 22 A World in Perplexity the world, to prevent the ** ghastly crisis throughwhich the world is now passing, is forcibly stated byDr. Butler as follows: ** The words that oftenest come to our lips, the idealsthat we cherish and pursue, the progress that we fan-cied we were making, seem not to exist. Mankind isback in the primeval forest, with the elemental brutepassions finding a truly fiendish expression. The only 1 1 i^K Hi ?M 1 ? ^^^^^^^j<iw|^P^^^iNHg
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