tailieunhanh - Above the Battle

"The fire smouldering in the forest of Europe was beginning to burst into flames. In vain did they try to put it out in one place; it only broke out in another. With gusts of smoke and a shower of sparks it swept from one point to another, burning the dry brushwood. Already in the East there were skirmishes as the prelude to the great war of the nations. All Europe, Europe that only yesterday was sceptical and apathetic, like a dead wood, was swept by the flames. All men were possessed by the desire for battle. War was ever on the point of breaking. | Above the Battle by Romain Rolland 1 Above the Battle by Romain Rolland The Project Gutenberg EBook of Above the Battle by Romain Rolland This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Above the Battle Author Romain Rolland Release Date June 12 2010 EBook 32779 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABOVE THE BATTLE Above the Battle by Romain Rolland 2 Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project. ABOVE THE BATTLE The fire smouldering in the forest of Europe was beginning to burst into flames. In vain did they try to put it out in one place it only broke out in another. With gusts of smoke and a shower of sparks it swept from one point to another burning the dry brushwood. Already in the East there were skirmishes as the prelude to the great war of the nations. All Europe Europe that only yesterday was sceptical and apathetic like a dead wood was swept by the flames. All men were possessed by the desire for battle. War was ever on the point of breaking out. It was stamped out but it sprang to life again. The world felt that it was at the mercy of an accident that might let loose the dogs of war. The world lay in wait. The feeling of inevitability weighed heavily even upon the most pacifically minded. And ideologues sheltered beneath the massive shadows of the cyclops Proudhon hymned in war man s fairest title of nobility. This then was to be the end of the physical and moral resurrection of the races of the West To such butchery they were to be borne along by the currents of action and passionate faith Only a Napoleonic genius could have marked out a chosen deliberate aim for this .