These forces are political,
social, and economic; beneath and through them works the
subtle impulsion of a national conception of right and might
which the author sums up as the "ideology of caste." Want of
space forbids the publication of the entire article. We give
its most significant parts with such summary of those portions
which it was necessary to omit as, we trust, will enable our
readers to follow the general argument.
Humanitarians the most deeply buried in dreams yield with stupefaction
to the evidence of fact. European war was possible, since here it is,
and even a world war, for all continents are represented in the melee.
Millions of men on the one side or the other are ranged along battle
fronts of from 500 to 1,000 kilometers. We are witnessing a displacement
of human masses to which there is nothing comparable except the
formidable convulsions of geologic ages.
The world then was in formation. Will a new Europe, a new society, a new
humanity, take form from the prodigious shock by which our imagination
is confounded?
We can at least seek to understand what we cannot hinder.
This war was not a matter of blind fate, but had been foreseen for a
long time.
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