Excerpt from War Things That Matter Fifteen Essays on the War Whatever we may think, the war is on all of us, worker and shirker. No one can dodge it altogether. My years forbid my doing my bit with the sword. But I can wield a pen after my fashion. The wish of my heart is that the pen may in this case be mightier than the sword would have been. If it be true that words are things, and that a drop of ink may make thousands think, I would fain believe that these few words on War Things that Matter may not be unfruitful. They come out of my very soul; out of my love for my dear native land; out of my love for Australia, the native land of my children; out of my sense of what is due to justice, truth, freedom, and civilisa tion. All these are at stake; but all are in the hands of an Omnipotent, in Whom I can place unshaken trust. 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.