And that is why we were not driven back to the sea. That is why we stood
the test. That is why we, the Allied Nations, shall win.
Again, if the German hordes, with their iron power behind them, had had
five per cent. of the Anglo-Saxon sporting blood in their veins, they could
have licked us long ago. They did not. They have not. They are poor
sports. They have eliminated the individuality of "sport" for the
efficiency of machinery, and they can not lick us.
Who started the war? The War Machine that had the preparation of half a
century, or the peace-loving peoples who, at a day's notice, took their
stand for humanity?
Who started the war? There is no room for argument. The Germans started the
war.
Who will finish the war? There is no room or argument. We will finish the
war.
CHAPTER VIII
"AND OUT OF EVIL THERE SHALL COME THAT WHICH IS GOOD"
The worst days of this war are over. The worst days were those through
which we came in the winter of 1914-15. The war may last ten years; the war
may be over inside of a few months. Neither contingency would surprise me.
We might lose twice as many in killed and wounded as we did through that
winter; every white man, British, French, American, of military age, might
pay the supreme price, and yet the worst days are gone by.
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