Modern Review August 1919

Tr number the timidity of IT 91142Clabli2' people! the selfish s reptieisra of weak rulers the ignon.ince or cynicism a the press : the grcedv 4. 4 the 'men of prey ; the timid Senility of the num or thought who make themselves the be:alles of murderous prejudices kept in Kt.ore for 1111ISSifAIS of destruction ;: the pitless pride of those intellectuals.; who believe in their own ideas mor [...] free:" The yoke of the people is lit the after history of the rwhe 11 it comes.tO IlL' wLitten these rears will ever stand out as the *Yearsii the Great Slavery: One half of Europe is 6 tt war with the other in the name of liberty. [...] of Fdl nations of the earth; we must riot in foolish pride still keep ouselves fast within the shell of the seed and the crust of the earth which protected and nourished our ideals: for these the shell and the crust were meant to he broken to that lire may spring up in all itgi Nigoar and. [...] The second—and it was the cora lary of the other--was its assumption that by reiason of this infinite supmiority "the great iiicdnations of the West" were quite justified in annexing goyeraing and vx.ploiting the rest of the world for their own wilvantage and quite irrespective.01 the wishes of the people the eottntries concerned. [...] Iii acts more than in words the 'West has claimed the right to subordinate the wishes and i.tspirations of the rest of the world to the exigemries of that form of civilization she has evolved for herself.