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Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten. Still, when Schiller says in the poem just quoted, Ohne Wahl vertheilt die Gaben, Ohne Billigkeit das Glück, Denn Patroklus liegt begraben Und Thersites kommt zurück, his illustration is only half right. The Greek Thersites did not return to claim a pension. In the picture to which I refer, General LEE was the main figure.
With a confessed but none the less pathetic illogicality, they feel as though Death had not gone to work impartially, but had selected for his prey the noblest and the best. One of these survivors, in a paper now before me, quotes from Das Siegesfest the line "Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten!" and then remarks: "Still, when Schiller says:
'This sublime and terrible phrase sums up the whole of Spanish history. Schiller was right; 'Immer der Krieg verschlingt die besten. We in England have suffered from this drain in the past; we shall suffer much more in the next generation. Aggressive patriotism is thus condemned by common sense and the verdict of history no less than by morality.
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