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Show oo WHAT WAR INFLICTS ON A PEOPLE. Answering Rernhardi. the German advocate of war ss a biological necessity, neces-sity, Dr. .1 A Macdonald In the G.ohe of Toronto. Canada, declares: "Never since the days of the Stuarts Stu-arts has Scotland, and especially the Scottish Highlands, been free from the toll taken bj the recruiting sergeants ser-geants for Britain's army. The history his-tory o. the Celts is. In one sentence: ''Forever they went out to battle, and forever they fell." The clan followed fol-lowed its Chief; the chiefs fo'.iowed their King, then their Stuafl Prince, and now their British KiDg If wails wai-ls a 'biological necessity,' what life, what virility, what a race of giants the moors and glens must yield to-dayl to-dayl "Every heathery hill looks down on a glen that, generation after generation, genera-tion, sent iu answer to the fiery cross and pines of war Ihe best Its home-; had bred. On those moors and through those intervales life at best was hard. Tbr weaklings did in Infancy. By the law of the survival cf the fittest there was bred a race f giants whose kilted regiment: , every ev-ery men of them six feet or more, were the pride ol their race and the giory oi isntisn anus. u nai now says biology'' What has been the biological issue for Scotland? "In the awful days of the Forty-five, Forty-five, out of this very Glenurq.inart eight hundred men of the clansmen's mold marched to Culloden for their Bonnie Prince Charlie.' but a fortnight fort-night ago anions; those who marched (ui to 'Leaving Glenurquhart.' not a corporal's guard, though they took their best from Loch Ness to Corri-mony, Corri-mony, could pass the' heroic standard of the olden days Giants from that glen and from Strathspey stained vith their blood the marble palaces of India, and saved the honor of hu inanity In the aW'ful days of the mutiny; mu-tiny; .but today few of their clan are It ft in their aln dear glen.' The Sturdy Chlshbims are gone from Ftrathglass. Wild and high, as through Belgium to Waterloo a hundred years ago, the 'Cameron's Gathering' rose this very month when Lochlel called for his men, but how many had the biological' excellence of the clan What time the plalded chiefs came down to battle with Montrose?' The Mackenzles today are few at Loch I room. "In the gloaming glens of the West Highlands there Is silence deep as death where once a thousand Campbells Camp-bells would start up in a night at the call of Argyll No lord of the Isles who sleeps in Iona could ever again gjther a clan worthy his tartan though he blew all night on thr Pibroch of Donald. "They went out, those Highland clans, wherever the royal standard tlw. Again those Highland clans go out the best and bravest of their breed, and they never come back Biology does the rest. Bernhr.rdi 's 'biological necessity' accomplishes its work. "Its waste in blood, Us waste In human protoplasm, its incalculable waste before their time of whole gener.it ion? of unborn sons of heroic Sires that waste-, uureckoned and prodigal, can never be gathered ur again. If biology means anythlug, if blood tells, then he wholesale slaunh trr of youth .ind vigor In the trenches nnd on the wide human abattoir' ot Europe la loss ihat hos no gain to match And the loss is not alone ot the stalwarts In their teens and twenties and thirties, "There is a never-ending phantom host who ouqht to have been but nev- r Khali be the unborn sons of sol-flier sol-flier Fathers who faced war's 'bloiogl cal necessity.' "The weiiklinqn survive, the cowards cow-ards escape, tho physically unfit are not called, th morally uncourageous are left to breed after their kind for the next generation; but the strong, the daring the willing they B ve no breed behind." Every word of the foregoing I well 'aid War i a sacrifice of the strongest strong-est men and must make for a weaker race. |
