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CHAPTER IV.
12,000,000 dollars. Owing to the rapid collapse of the enemy, the
United States did not enjoy the privilege of putting forth her
exertions to the full, but there was enough indication of her strength,
to cheer the Allies, to unnerve the hearts of their enemies and,
one may add, to make a rapid settlement of the ultimate issues of
the war.
After estimating all this strength in favour of the side which
the British Empire joined as an active fighter, the account would be
incomplete without a reference to what was probably the most
powerful source of support for the Allies, the righteousness of their
cause. In a moment of unpreparedness, they were faced by the
highly organized armies of two great military empires, which had
equipped themselves for the struggle during the treacherous silence
of years. But the truth of Sakespeare’s words were once more to
be demonstrated, this time on a scale unparalleled in the history of
mankind:—
What stronger breast-plate than a heart unstained'
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
CHAPTER IV.
12,000,000 dollars. Owing to the rapid collapse of the enemy, the
United States did not enjoy the privilege of putting forth her
exertions to the full, but there was enough indication of her strength,
to cheer the Allies, to unnerve the hearts of their enemies and,
one may add, to make a rapid settlement of the ultimate issues of
the war.
After estimating all this strength in favour of the side which
the British Empire joined as an active fighter, the account would be
incomplete without a reference to what was probably the most
powerful source of support for the Allies, the righteousness of their
cause. In a moment of unpreparedness, they were faced by the
highly organized armies of two great military empires, which had
equipped themselves for the struggle during the treacherous silence
of years. But the truth of Sakespeare’s words were once more to
be demonstrated, this time on a scale unparalleled in the history of
mankind:—
What stronger breast-plate than a heart unstained'
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.