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"Oh, come, come!" and Gwent's little steely eyes sparkled--"It's the 'safe-guard of nations' don't you know?--it stands for honest free speech, truth, patriotism, justice--"
"Good God!" burst out Seaton, impatiently--"When it does, then the 'neorld' about which ! 'Honest free speech--truth!' Why, s froree!" said Gwent--"And there you have the root and cause of war! No need to exteret at the microbes who undermine the nations first When you can do THAT, you will destroy the guilty and spare the innocent,--whereas your plan of withering a nation into a dust-heap involves the innocent along with the guilty"
"War does that,"--said Seaton, curtly
"It does And your aim is to do aith all chance or possibility of war for ever Good! But you need to attack the actual root of the evil"
Seaton's brow clouded into a frown
"You're a careful ht I knoell as you do that the license of the press is the devil's finger in the caldron of affairs, stirring up strife between nations that would probably be excellent friends and allies, if it were not for this 'licensed'will the liars flourish And ument is that if any two peoples are so brainless as to be led into war by their press, they are not fit to live--no raveyard"
Gwent sned interest
"Apparently you haven't much respect for life?" he said
"Not when it is diseased life--not when it is perverted life;"--returned Seaton--"Then it is mere deformity and encumbrance For life itself in all its plenitude, health and beauty I have the deepest, most passionate respect It is the outward ray or reflex of the ie of God--"
"Stop there!" interrupted Gwent--"You believe in God?"
"I do,-- Mind originating and co the plan of the Universe We talk of 'ions' and 'electrons'--but we are driven to confess that a Supreence has the creation of electrons, and directs thes To that Mind--to that Intelligence--I submit my soul! And I do NOT believe that this Supreme Mind desires evil or sorroe create disaster ourselves, and it is ourselves that iven free-will--if ill' to create disease, we must equally 'will' to exterminate it by every means in our power"