The World Decision (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The World Decision Italy for two thousand years, to be roused to a fresh heat of hate by outraged Belgium, by in vaded France, by the Lusitania murders. Less conscious, perhaps, but not less mighty as a mov ing force than this personal antagonism was the spiritual antagonism between the Latin and the German, between the two visions of the world Which the German and the Latin imagine and seek to perpetuate. That in a large and very real sense this world agony of war is the supreme struggle between these two opposed traditions of civilization a decision between two competing forms of life seems to me so obvious as to need no argument. In such a struggle Italy must, by compulsion of historical tradition as well as of political situation, take her part on the side of those who from one angle or another are uphold ing with their lives the inheritance of Rome against the pretensions of force - law, justice, mercy, beauty against the dead weight of physical and material strength. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.