Excerpt from Volleys From a Non-Combatant
Dear Hazen: I dedicate this little book to you because, if you had not said that you thought such a collection might be useful to refer to hereafter, I should hardly have decided to reprint it. I know too well how fugitive such pieces must be, but I know, also, how grateful the historian is when he comes upon them and finds in them the expression of a party, or it may, as in this case, of a mere individual, during a great crisis. Assuredly, I speak only for myself, but perhaps some readers will find in these papers, as you do, certain symptoms without a knowledge of which no one can hope to understand the changing attitude of America toward the Atrocious War.
From the beginning of August, 1914, when the German Kaiser forced this war upon the world, I believed that it was a contest in which Germany strove to destroy Civilization and to substitute for it the barbaric German Kultur - the negation of moral law, the system in which the shameless deceit and unimagined cruelty of German selfishness embodied themselves.
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