FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 2: Delivered at the Scala Theatre, Milan, 30 November,
1914.]

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HEROISM




VI

HEROISM


1

One of the consoling surprises of this war is the unlooked-for and, so
to speak, universal heroism which it has revealed among all the
nations taking part in it.

We were rather inclined to believe that courage, physical and moral
fortitude, self-denial, stoicism, the renunciation of every sort of
comfort, the faculty of self-sacrifice and the power of facing death
belonged only to the more primitive, the less happy, the less