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Updated: May 23, 2025
The army saved the morale of France when the Church had lost its hold, and the public schools had been delivered to the creatures of sentimental doctrinaire government. Was it not a pity that Psichari should have died so young?" "Did you know him?" I asked. "Yes; I saw something of him in Africa. The mystery of the East had profoundly stirred him.
To the French mind, this conception of war is barbaric, for war is not good in itself and may be fatal to both victor and vanquished." "It was Ernest Psichari who revealed to us the raison d'être of arms in modern life, and taught us the meaning of war.
Quand on a tout dit, the military ideals of honor, duty, and sacrifice of one's all for the common good are the fundamentals of. character. Psichari turned this generation from a generation of dreamers to a generation of soldiers, knowing why they were soldiers, glad to be soldiers.
The third man was a Frenchman, a poet, Ernest Psichari by name, who fell at Verton, in Belgium. "His battery had been ordered to keep the enemy in check while the army was falling back," ran the story.
Psichari was the intellectual leader of that movement for the regeneration of the army which has saved France. When the doctrines of pacificism began to be preached in France, and cries of 'A bas l'armée' were heard in the streets, Psichari showed that the army was the only institution left in our industrialized world with the old ideals and the power to teach them.
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