OCR Text |
Show Zola on War. M. Zola writes to a Paris paper: War must come. War is life itself. Nothing exists in nature, nothing is born or grows or multiplies multi-plies save by combat. The world can live only by eating and being eaten. And it is only the w arlike nations that have prospered; a nation dies when it disarms. War is the school of discipline, sacrifice and courage. We must wait for it gravely. Henceforward we have nothing more to fear. Germany, so proud for tlvj last twenty years, is at the apogee of her power; but do we not already al-ready seem to hear tho tUreatcnings of dis-ruptiosi? |