ands have given up their work in useful industries and
are laboring day and night to produce new and deadlier weapons which would
spill out the blood of the race more copiously than before.

Each day they invent a new bomb or explosive and then the governments must
abandon their obsolete arms and begin producing the new, since the old
weapons cannot hold their own against the new. For example at this
writing, in the year 1292 A.H.(40) they have invented a new rifle in
Germany and a bronze cannon in Austria, which have greater firepower than
the Martini-Henry rifle and the Krupp cannon, are more rapid in their
effects and more efficient in annihilating humankind. The staggering cost
of it all must be borne by the hapless masses.

Be just: can this nominal civilization, unsupported by a genuine
civilization of character, bring about the peace and well-being of the
people or win the good pleasure of God? Does it not, rather, connote the
destruction of man's estate and pull down the pillars of happiness and
peace?

At the time of the Franco-Prussian War, in the year 1870 of the Christian
era, it was reported that 600,000 men died, broken and beaten, on the
field of battle. How many a home was torn out by the roots; how many a
city, flourishing the night before, was toppled down by sunrise. How many
a child was orphaned and abandoned, how many an old father and mother had
to see their sons, the young fruit of their lives, twisting and dying in
dust and blood. How many women were widowed, left without a helper or
protector.

And then there were the libraries and magnificent buildings of France that
went up in flames, and the military hospital, packed with sick and wounded
men, that was set on fire and burned to the ground. And there followed the
terrible events of the Commune, the savage acts, the ruin and horror when
opposing factions fought and killed one another in the streets of Paris.
There were the hatreds and hostilities between Catholic religious leaders
and the German government. There was the civil strife and uproar, the
bloodshed and havoc brought on between the partisans of the Republic and
the Carlists in Spain.

Only too many such instances are available to demonstrate the fact that
Europe is morally uncivilized. Since the writer has no wish to cast
aspersions on anyone He has confined Himself to these few examples. It is
clear that no perceptive and well-informed mind can countenance such
events. Is it rig