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It is impossible to understand this epic war except in the light of recent history; it is impossible to endure its terror unless we look beyond. It is no casual and untoward event, the rash precipitation in time and space of the insane illusions of matoids and paranoiacs, the accident of industrial war fare, the catastrophe that might have been escaped. It was conceived in the very be ginnings of modernism when first the Re naissance began to supersede Mediaevalism; it grew and strengthened as the Reforma tion entered into its final form; it quickened and stirred as the revolutions of the eight eenth and nineteenth centuries shook the foundations of law and order in all Europe; it struggled for birth as industrial civiliza tion waxed fat and gross in its century of blind evolution. Medici, Borgia and Mac chiavelli, Huss and Luther and Calvin.
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