THE TRUTH ABOUT WAR what speaking in quite unofficial language is the net purport and upshot of war to my own knowledge for example there dwell and toil in the british village of Drum drudge usually some five hundred souls prom fron these by certain natural enemies of the Fre french nefi there are successfully cess fully selected during the the french war say thirty able bodied men Dum druge a sr her own exl cx lense has suckled and nursed them she has not without difficulty and sorrow I 1 fed them up to manhood and even 1 trained them to crafts si ef that one can weave another build another hammer and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois nevertheless amid much weeping and swearing they are selected all 1 I 1 dressed in red and shipped away at the public charges some two thousand miles or say only to the south of spain and fed there till Wal wanted lUNI and now to that same spot I 1 in the south of spain are arc th thirty ry similar F rench french artisans f from rom a french deneh dum drudge in like manner wending till at length after infinite effort the ile two parties come into actual juxtaposition and thirty stands fronting thirty each with a gun fun in m his is hand straightway the word fire is given and they blow the souls out of one another and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen the word has sixty dead carcasses which it must bury and anew shed tears for had these men any qu quarrel orrel busy as the devil is not the smallest they lived far enough apart were the ent irest strangers nay in so wide a universe there was even unconsciously schou ly by commerce some mutual helpfulness between them how then simpleton their governors had fallen out and instead of s shooting I 1 looting one another had the cunning to make these poor blockheads blackheads block heads shoot each other thomas carlyle