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Author’s Note
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On approaching the task of writing this Note for Victory, the first thing I am conscious of is the actual nearness of the book, its nearness to me personally, to the vanished mood in which it was written, and to the mixed feelings aroused by the critical notices the book obtained when first published almost exactly a year after the beginning of the war. The writing of it was finished in 1914 long before the murder of an Austrian Archduke sounded the first note of warning for a world already full of doubts and fears.
The contemporaneous very short Author’s Note which is preserved in this edition bears sufficient witness to the feelings with which I consented to the publication of the book. The fact of the book having been published in the United States early in the year made it difficult to delay its appearance in England any longer. It came out in the thirteenth month of the war, and my conscience was troubled by the awful incongruity1 of throwing this bit of imagined drama into the welter of reality, tragic2 enough in all conscience, but even more cruel than tragic and more inspiring than cruel. It seemed awfully3 presumptuous4 to think there would be eyes to spare for those pages in a community which in the crash of the big guns and in the din5 of brave words expressing the truth of an indomitable faith could not but feel the edge of a sharp knife at its throat.
The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adaptable6 both by his power of endurance and in his capacity for detachment. The fact seems to be that the play of his destiny is too great for his fears and too mysterious for his understanding. Were the trump7 of the Last Judgement to sound suddenly on a working day the musician at his piano would go on with his performance of Beethoven’s sonata8 and the cobbler at his stall stick to his last in undisturbed confidence in the
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sonata
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virtue
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homely
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intervals
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battered
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aloofness
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堕落( degradation的名词复数 ); 下降; 陵削; 毁坏 | |
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gratitude
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rehabilitation
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