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The talk veered then, but still focused on the war. It became
abstract as was so much of the war talk in America in 1916. Were
we, after this war was over, to continue to use the inventions of
science to destroy mankind, or for its welfare? Would we ever again,
in wars to come, go back to the comparative humanity of the Hague
convention? Were such wickednesses as the use of poison gas, the
spreading of disease germs and the killing of non-combatants, all
German precedents, to inaugurate a new era of cruelty in warfare.
Was this the last war? Would there ever be a last war? Would there
not always be outlaw nations, as there are outlaw individuals?
Would there ever be a league of nations to enforce peace?
From that to Christianity. It had failed. On the contrary, there
was a great revival of religious faith. Creeds, no. Belief, yes.
Too many men were dying to permit the growth of any skepticism as
to a future life. We must have it or go mad.
In the midst of that discussion Audrey rose.


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