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Excerpt from The Paths of Glory: A Collection of Poems Written During the War, 1914-1919 The fact that this collection of poems written during the Great War, unlike the majority of those published during the last few years, contains so little in any way tending to glorify the idea of War in general, will perhaps seem strange to some readers. But the explanation is very simple. Fifteen centuries ago, St. Augustine wrote: "Joy and peace are desired alike of all. All men seek peace by war, but none seek war by peace." And however much, remembering the achievements of modern statecraft, we may disagree with the latter part of his remark, in a general sense his words remain true even to-day. It was indeed at one time commonly asserted that, in spite of the late Lord Roberts's stern assurance to the contrary, the Great War of 1914 was a war to end war; and this undoubtedly seemed to the majority a consummation devoutly to be wished. At any rate most people are now agreed in loathing war; and even the spiritual descendants of St. Augustine, though they may not care to write so strongly as the Father himself while war is actually raging, are nevertheless able and willing to preach "Peace! Peace!" where there is peace. 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.