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Identifier: causesmeaningofg00gord (find matches)
Title: The causes and meaning of the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Gordy, Wilbur Fisk, 1854-1929
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Boston, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nds us of thatexpressed by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburgspeech when he said that government of thepeople, by the people, and for the people, shall notperish from the earth.The words of Contrast this American ideal of government withthe Kaiser ^^ presentec( ^y William jj after he had been crowned as German Emperor: Considering my-self as the instrument of the Lord, I go on my way. . . and so I am indifferent to the views and theopinions of the moment.Freedom or 163. Contrast Between the Ideal of Autocracy andIsTpeopie118 that of Democracy.—This statement of the Kaiserrepresented the ideal of autocracy; the words ofAbraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson expressthe ideal of democracy. The conflict betweenthese two opposing ideals of government—gov-ernment of all by one and the rule of all by thepeople themselves—had its outward expression inthe Titanic war in which more than 10,000,000lives were blotted out, and many million more weremutilated or diseased for life. It was a war be-
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From a photograph copyright by Brown BrothersPREMIER CLEMENCEAU 138 THE CAUSES AND MEANING OF The strugglewas for therights of allnations An enduringpeace tween democracy and autocracy. It was a warwhose issue was to determine whether the worldshould be free or should be enslaved by Germany—the last great embodiment of the barbarian prin-ciple of autocratic rule, which is an anachronismin a world where the rights of the people arerespected. President Wilson declared that America wasfighting to make the world safe for democracy;and Lloyd George declared: Our real enemy is thewar spirit fostered in Prussia. There will be nopeace in the world until the shrine of the war spiritin Potsdam is shattered, and its priesthood is dis-persed and discredited forever. 164. The Great War a Deadly Struggle BetweenCivilization and Scientific Barbarism.—These two menmeant practically the same thing. The worldcould not be made safe for democracy except bycrushing Prussian militarism. It was for civi

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