Excerpt from The War and After: Short Chapters on Subjects of Serious Practical Import for the Average Citizen From A D. 1915 Onwards
This book was published in 1915 at a time when events were going hard for us. We had no adequate supply of munitions, and our men had to suffer bombardment with severe economy of retort. Since then things have mended, the Nation has provided what is necessary and set its teeth in a firmer grip, but our feelings, whether for friend or foe, have not appreciably changed, and there is practically nothing in the book that need be altered.
Nothing to be changed, but something loud to be added, something that the world is shouting, something vivid in historic significance. One of the great phases of history is being enacted before our eyes - the union of the Dominions and of the New and Old Worlds, a hand-clasp of friendliness across the seas, a beginning of the Federation of the English-speaking race.
Welcome, thrice welcome, are our brethren now definitely enrolled in an unselfish Crusade for freedom and righteousness. Surely this exalteth a nation. Never was the star-spangled banner so glorious as when it was unfurled in a vigorous and decisive effort to bring to nought all that mean and ugly preparation, to counter all that ruthless efficiency, which sought by violence and cruelty to dominate the earth.
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