Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Great War in 1914: A Sketch of the Operations in Europe and Asia, With Some Reflexions and Observations
Owing to the social conditions which the intelligence of Man has created, the savage instincts are kept in check, and consequently modified in certain surroundings, but even in the most civilized and orderly communities an outbreak of savagery, such as a war with another political organization, is not infrequent and, curiously enough, not unwelcome - at the outbreak.
The late war was welcomed with enthusiasm in Germany as also in Russia and Austria. Even in civilized France and Britain there was no reluctance to engage. The end of the war, with the horrors and miseries it has brought in its train, has again set people trying to find a preventative from these spasmodic recurrences to primitive savagery.
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