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Show THOMAS CARLYLH ON WAR Qreat Scotch Philosopher Indulged In Some Severe Strictures at to Its Effect and Necessity. What, speaking In quite unofficial languago, is tho net purport and upshot up-shot of wnr? Thoro dwell and toll In tho Uritbh vlllago of Drumrudgo usually somo 600 souls, From theso there aro successively selected, during tho French war, say thirty able-bodied men; Dumrudgc, at hor own expense, has suckled and nursed thorn; sho has, not without difficulty nnd sorrow, fed them up to manhood and oven trained them to crafts, so that ono can weavo, onothor build, another hammer, ham-mer, and tho weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Ncvortho-. loss, amid much weoplng and Bwoar-Ing, Bwoar-Ing, thoy aro selected, all dressed In rod, and shipped awny nt the publla chnrge somo two thousand miles, or I say only to tho south ot Spain, and i fad thero till wanted. And now to that samo spot aro somo thirty similar simi-lar Fronch artisans, from a French Drumrudgo, In llko manner wondlng; till at length, after Inflnlto effort, tho two parties como Into actual Juxtaposition; Juxtapo-sition; and Thirty stands facing Thirty, Thir-ty, each with a gun In his hands. Straightway tho word "Fire!" Is glv-n; glv-n; and thoy blow tho souls out of ono another; and In placo of sixty i brisk, useful craftsmen tho world has sixty carcasses, which It must bury and anow shod tears for Had theso men any quarrel? Husy as tho devil i Is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were tho entlrest strangers; nay. In so wtdo a universe j thero was ovon, unconsciously, by commerce, somo mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! Simple-ton! their governors had fallen out; and. Instead of shooting oue another, had tho cunning to mako thoso poor blockheads shoot! Thomas Carlylo. |