Towards moral bankruptcy / by Paul Bureau.

  • Paul Bureau
Date:
1925
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    AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION “One can only heal the ills from which society suffers by speaking openly about them.”—(J. S. Mill). Frenchmen of our generation will never forget the fateful first of August, 1914 ; on that tragic day a nation that had been weak enough to believe no longer in the possibility of a European war suddenly found itself called upon to defend its native soil against the scientific assault which the Teutonic hordes had been preparing. We know how the challenge was accepted ; this France of ours, which our enemies believed had sunk to the final limits of social disorganization and decrepitude, showed that she had preserved intact the tradition of the warlike virtues of her people. The heroes of the Marne, the Yser, and of Verdun, were worthy of their most famous ancestors, The stubborn heroism of our chiefs and our soldiers enabled us to impose upon Germany the capitulation of 1 ith November, 1918, followed by the glorious Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919. A new, and perhaps a harder task demands our efforts ; we have waged and won the war ; now we have to organize the peace, and laboriously to reap its fruits. Matchless warriors yesterday, shall we know to-morrow how to organize a society at once coherent, endowed with power and dynamic force? In a word, can we squarely face life and be capable of supporting among the nations the role to which we are bound and to which the need of Humanity itself calls us ? A question ever charged with pain, which must yet be put in all its troublous plentitude, since it has found no answer either in the minds of our A
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