The Revolt of Labour Against Civilisation (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Revolt of Labour Against Civilisation Their own type of civilisation was superior to all others; war, carried even to the point of extermination, was the lawful mode of imposing their will on inferior races; autocracy was the only political instrument adapted to their imperial mission. On the other side stood the propositions, announced with ever increasing fervour, that the Germanic power was a barbarous revival, that war was an intolerable way of promoting a cause or settling a dispute, that democracy alone could make liberty secure. Barbarism or civilisation; force or justice; tyranny or freedom. It certainly sounds like a conflict of first principles and a division of mankind into ultimate halves. For me, however, the question is whether the war of nations has wholly coincided with the war of ideas, or whether the true opposition of spiritual forces may not thus far have been obscured for us by an artificial division of the combatants. Without condoning in any way the crimes of Germany, without regretting for an instant our resistance to her preposterous claims, I still am tempted to compare the terrific struggle now formally concluded to a "curtain-raiser," fitted only to distract the attention of the audience before the serious drama is presented on the stage. What the Germans, so it seems to me, have compelled us to face is not so much the final collision of good and evil as the staggering fact that sheer absurdity can deluge the world in blood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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