Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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o precedent in human his-tory. And with each manwho falls perishes also thegreat widening wedge,reaching forward thru his-tory, of those who shouldhave been his descendants.When a man gives his lifefor his country, as the un-discriminating phrase goes,he gives far more thanthat, he contributes hisshare to the slain unnum-bered, the last and great-est loss of every war. Besides the soldierscounted in millions, the wartakes its quota of civilians,men and women slain alongthe road, refugees of everyclass and description, andwith these it takes also those noble souls, men and women, un-able to bear the awful strain of a topsy-turvy world. To these we may add thoseslain in barbarian massacres and thruthe more discriminating torture whichcivilized nations apply to those whostand aloof from the mob. And wartakes its toll of children, too, aban-doned, trampled, starved in the rushof armies, or perishing thru lack ofcare. We are told that in the war-sweptdistricts of Poland there is scarcely a
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© Moflett Studio DR. JORDAN child left under eight years save theunwelcomed nurslings begotten by thelawless hosts. And behind all this, and after thepassing of the armies, over the woman-hood of Europe spreads the dark shadowof enforced celibacy. It is a most un-natural world in which women hope-lessly outnumber the men. This condi-tion does not mean the freedom ofwomen nor their release from any serv-itude men have thrust upon them. Itinvolves loveless lonesomeness of greatclasses with no wholesomemeans of escape. It meansthat millions of womencreated for love and mother-hood are debarred from therichest joys of life becausetheir natural mates no long-er exist. For these forms of wast-age there is no instantremedy. The dead cannotreturn, the living must fillthe gaps as well as theycan. What of the future?Here our problem dividesthe replacement in qualityand the restoration in quan-tity. The wastage in merenumbers need not be per-manent. In time of peaceto be fruitful and multi-ply

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