Excerpt from The Forks of the Road The outbreak of any war? I cannot answer with assurance, but I do not recall any record of a similar revulsion Of feeling at the imminence of warfare. The gates of Janus, not Often Shut in past centuries, have generally been flung open with a shout. We may count it a note of progress that they were opened this time with a groan that was audible all round the world. Former generations have accepted war as a matter of course; this generation was inclined to regard it as something anomalous and mon strous. And this revulsion of feeling was directed toward the coexistence with Christian civilization of a war as fierce and deadly as this was sure to be. That such horrible enginery of hate and de struction as the nations had been making. 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.