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
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gical reasons are not far to seek and are quiteas important as the historical ones. It is partly a matter oftaste; it is very much a matter of sentiment, but more than all it is a profound regard for those qualities of characterwhich have shone resplendent in this war. We like generosity, and France has always been gener-ous. It was a chivalrous generosity that France extendedto us in our Revolutionary struggle. It was a splendid in-tellectual generosity that characterized de Toquevillesaccount of American political institutions; an intellectualgenerosity that for more than a century and a half hasmarked French thinking, French science, French art andcriticism, as it marked the achievements of the Greek. Weadmire that simplicity of manhood the substance of whichis courage; and from the days of the religious wars untilnow French courage has been superb. Most of all, weadmire that generosity of the soul which can make supremesacrifices, and say nothing about them, in times that call for
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Underwood & Underwood RED CROSS AND RECONSTRUCTIONPresident Wilson has appointed Mr. Henry P. Davison, vice-president of J. P. Morgan & Co., as chairman of the new Red Cross War Council.Its first work is to be relief and reconstruction in the districts of Northern France left devastated by the German retreat May 19, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 315 the instant surrender of everything that men hold dear for acause that is felt to be infinitely higher than the individuallife, or even than the collective life of a generation. Francehas made this surrender on a scale which, as we see ittoday, seems to be without a parallel in history. There is something too, very subtle but very substantial,in our liking for that adaptability which enables a peopleto be light-hearted and gay or grim and relentless, as occa-sion demands. For two and a half years the French men ofthe armies have shown the world that they know how todie; and French women have shown that they know how totake up the burdens of

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