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Show PRESENT WAR DUE TO 1TBLIIIR i ; Viscount Bryce Gives Views in Lecture at London University. : i LOXDOX, ret. 23. 2;35 a. m. Viscount j Bryce, former embassador to the "United States, lecturing at London university on race sentiment as a lac tor in history, traced the origin of the present war to ; feelings of racial consciousness and na-! na-! tionai vanity, developed during the last i 1,"0 years by tho American and French revolutions. I "Racial war," paid Viscount Bryce, "now has led to a. war conflagration on a j scale vaster than the world ever bus i seen. There is ground for hope that th-; th-; ter.denov tn vard tho development of ra- rial feeling nd the caj;erati-in of im-j im-j tiona! cntilics may not increase. Years of ! exhaustion must follow the present mens-; mens-; ureiess destruction of life Hiid prorert', and economic issues will leave little time for the development oi racial vanities. en tiiough there has Clime this cataclysm cata-clysm of roily and Buffering, we need nut cease to hope for ih future- The lesson to be learned j that Die doctrines and deep-rented passions whence these evil? sprung ran he. removed only by the s'ow and st eady v.-orking ..f sjiritua! forcr.y. Wl-.at. rpf-st is necdf, ilif ehini i n t Ion of those feejiis. tie trftchirjes of which in nV'St na 1 1 n breed ,valoii.-v ;i nd ha t red. and prompt men to d',li;.ce and trssinn. ' How', er nuich wn r-ondemn re( kU-F lailers and tin; ruthles-c ra?fe who ll fnr war. the re.-il s-r.tirce of the irijhief is the pupilar F"n 1 i ni'r 'i t b'liind t'.em. The , real misc! iff h len d'.ne bv ti.- w?H.r god lie pobt!'-al Ivudej-t, vs'hO pr.iM!;ir;z-d Hat;e-ed t'c.eir exa a t --d n''. l ii.a ! an-itv. an-itv. 1? i n.-v the p"mic.- "f think-ers think-ers and r!:rs ; ei.f-T.-e h lnoadfr lind saiur and nu synina t i .'-i i-- viv.. l-ivcry i (Cotitinued ou Page Seven.) 1 PRESEHT WAR DUE TO MIL vnn I ! (Continued from Page One.) race and nation must learn that H ought notv even in its own interest, to desire predominance or seek to enforce its own type on the world. It must recognize that It exists, not for Its own good, but for the good of its neighbor. "General recognition of such truths mav be a long way off, but is there anything for us to do but to work patiently toward such an end?" |