The Earthquake
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My friend, as he readily admits, neither knew what he knows now nor conceived it to be possible. Had he done so he would have been then, as I was, for war. To-day that same middle-aged lawyer — that conservative stand- patter — is touring the country stimulating by his elo- quence hundreds, if not thousands, to enlist. He is for the war— to a finish. For peace only with victory.
I do not say that my friend is a different man, but he is an outraged one. He exercises still the discrim- inating pr...ocesses of mind that have made him a leader of the bar, and which enabled him to weigh more or less calmly the specious arguments advanced by Ger- many for her ruthless undersea warfare. The mental habits of a lifetime rendered him incapable of adopt- ing any other attitude toward Germany than that which he would have maintained toward a fellow prac- titioner in a court of justice — that of courteous con- sideration. He was accustomed to give every devil 215 THE EARTHQUAKE his due. He assumed that even if the German General Staff were, as matter of law, guilty of piracy or murder, their guilt was due to a mistake in, or at least a colora- ble construction of, the law upon their part — ^that they had, as we would have expressed it, some sort of "a case." Then suddenly he discovered that he had made an almost incredible mistake.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
My friend, as he readily admits, neither knew what he knows now nor conceived it to be possible. Had he done so he would have been then, as I was, for war. To-day that same middle-aged lawyer — that conservative stand- patter — is touring the country stimulating by his elo- quence hundreds, if not thousands, to enlist. He is for the war— to a finish. For peace only with victory.
I do not say that my friend is a different man, but he is an outraged one. He exercises still the discrim- inating pr...ocesses of mind that have made him a leader of the bar, and which enabled him to weigh more or less calmly the specious arguments advanced by Ger- many for her ruthless undersea warfare. The mental habits of a lifetime rendered him incapable of adopt- ing any other attitude toward Germany than that which he would have maintained toward a fellow prac- titioner in a court of justice — that of courteous con- sideration. He was accustomed to give every devil 215 THE EARTHQUAKE his due. He assumed that even if the German General Staff were, as matter of law, guilty of piracy or murder, their guilt was due to a mistake in, or at least a colora- ble construction of, the law upon their part — ^that they had, as we would have expressed it, some sort of "a case." Then suddenly he discovered that he had made an almost incredible mistake.
What to read after The Earthquake?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Charles Scribner's Sons. Pbl to read onlineMoreLess
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