The Faith of France: Studies in Spiritual Differences & Unity
Translated by Elisabeth Marbury
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CHAPTER I OUR DIVERGENCIES DISAPPEAR ON AUGUST 4, 1 914
OUR DIVERGENCIES DISAPPEAR ON AUGUST 4, 1 914
NEVER has an army at any period of the world’s history so vibrated with intelHgence and with vision as has ours. When this war began, our wisdom and our folly were mobilized with the nation. No wonder time-honored discipline was effaced throughout the ranks. Every element seemed to serve, the best and that which before the war we chose to stamp as the worst. We saw enlisted for the public welfare moral forces which sprang into being from every direction, whether born of one religion or of another, through philosophy or through tradition: all contained some element upon which souls could feed; thus inspired, this army, by intensive contradictions, when brought face to face with the Germans, stood united in strength and effulgent with spiritual beauty.
How explain this miracle? How was this spirit born? Remember that it was at first aroused by a great wave of national enthusiasm.
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