Excerpt from Varieties of Pacifism Catch the sounds of pain in books. You cannot hear the sighing of a boy whose life is ebbing away, and who keeps on saying Mother, Mother, until his heart stops beating. You cannot hear the groan of a man whose legs have been blown Off, or the shriek of a man whose every breath is an agony. You cannot hear the death rattle in a single throat, much less in a thousand throats. These things are not to be found in books. Nor can you get the sights of war in books. You can not see the twitching of a nerve, the spasm of a muscle, the contortion of a body twisted into terrible shapes by a torture that cannot be ex pressed. You cannot see the glazing of eyes in death. Nobody knows what war is who has not been in war. There are millions of men who now. 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.