The Conquest of America

The Conquest of America
A Romance of Disaster and Victory: U.S.A., 1921 A. D.

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The Conquest of America by Cleveland Moffett

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The Conquest of America
A Romance of Disaster and Victory: U.S.A., 1921 A. D.

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Based on extracts from the diary of James E. Langston, War Correspondent of the ''London Times''

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international struggle for world supremacy, the only nations willing to stop fighting will be the ones that are far ahead of the game, like Great Britain, Russia and the United States.

We may be sure that wars will continue on the earth. War may be a biological necessity in the development of the human race--God's housecleaning, as Ella Wheeler Wilcox calls it. War may be a great soul stimulant meant to purge mankind of evils greater than itself, evils of baseness and world degeneration. We know there are blighted forests that must be swept clean by fire. Let us not scoff at such a theory until we understand the immeasurable mysteries of life and death. We know that, through the ages, two terrific and devastating racial impulses have made themselves felt among men and have never been restrained, sex attraction and war. Perhaps they were not meant to be restrained.

Listen to John Ruskin, apostle of art and spirituality:

All the pure and noble arts of peace are founded on war. No great art ever rose on

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