murdered. It was the spark which set off the powder mine of Europe.
But not for him are they fighting. Behind him stood the two contending
forces of the growing nationalism of Serbia and the expanding
commercialism of Austria. These two forces clashed in conflict, but
not for them are they fighting. Behind these stood two greater powers,
those of pan-Germanism and pan-Slavism, a growing Germany and a rising
Russia, which like a vast glacier for a thousand years had sought the
open sea. The ambitions of these two powers clashed in conflict at
Constantinople and elsewhere. But not for them are they fighting.

On the western front there were two deeper principles in conflict,
those of autocracy and democracy, the question whether one man and a
sinister, hidden group of plotting militarists could drag the whole
world into war and crush its liberties and its laws beneath the iron
heel of despotism, or whether man as man should stand erect in his
God-given right of freedom and work out his own destiny in friendly
brotherhood.

But behind even the great conflict between autocracy and democracy lay
a yet deeper issue. In the last analysis the final question in human
life is between a material and a spiritual interpretation of the
universe, whether might makes right and the strong are to rule, or
whether right makes might and the moral order is supreme. There is a
material and a spiritual side of life. On this side is the brute
struggle for life; on that, the struggle for the life of others; on the
one hand, the fight for the survival of the fittest, and on the other,
the fight to make men fit to survive. On the left hand is selfishness
and on the right service; on the one side are the red battlefields of
the enemy, and on the other is a cross red in sacrifice of a life laid
down in the serving and saving of men. There is a final issue in the