Elon University - Phi Psi Cli Yearbook (Elon, NC)

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They Did Not Die Too Soon Progress, no longer blacl(mailed fcp crowned ruffians, will promptly meet the war debts. Imagination, free to exploit all domains, knows where the salvaging wealths are hid. Microscope, retort, and crucible will find more billions than guns have lost. The increased energy and enthusiasm of peoples, liberated from fear and restriction, will soon finance the future. Faith and hope have feathered their dreams and sent ambition winging to the stars. Never again shall they cower before doubt — or let expediency counsel their souls. We know at last that justice is invulnerable — that the Right is God ' s eternal will — that conscience and courage are impenetrable panoplies. Prejudice and caste have yielded the highroad, and insolent minor- ities no longer thwart popular weal. Civilization is resolved that parasitic classes shall pass. Future opportunity, earth over, is reserved to merit. These things have we brought humanity from the battlefield. Such is our victory, and our children shall not regret the cost. The World-machine shall never again he smashed by fanatic or greedy swords. Now and ever after we shall be builders, arid our conflicts shall only be against darkness and disease and the wantonness of nature. Tomorrow shall not miss the millions resting on the breast of France — man is but a measure of minutes. They were marked to perish by the bayonets of the clock- Time would have slain them had the Prus- sian not. They did not die too soon who held the Front for Christendom. What equal glories could their further years have won? — Herbert Kaufman.