TAILIEUCHUNG - THE BARBARISM OF BERLIN

Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people's weaknesses as well as my own. It .may be that the master of the house was burned because he was drunk: it may be that the mistress of the house was burned because she was stingy, and perished arguing about the expense of a fire-escape. It is, nevertheless, broadly true that they. | THE BARBARISM OF BERLIN BY . CHESTERTON First Published 1914 Contents INTRODUCTION THE FACTS OF THE CASE I. THE WAR ON THE WORD II. THE REFUSAL OF RECIPROCITY III. THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY IV. THE ESCAPE OF FOLLY INTRODUCTION. THE FACTS OF THE CASE. Unless we are all mad there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story and if we are all mad there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people s weaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of the house was burned because he was drunk it may be that the mistress of the house was burned because she was stingy and perished arguing about the expense of a fire-escape. It is nevertheless broadly true that they both were burned because I set fire to their house. That is the story of the thing. The mere facts of the story about the present European conflagration are quite as easy to tell. Before we go on to the deeper things which make this war the most sincere war of human history it is as easy to answer the question of why England came to be in it at all as it is to ask how a man fell down a coal-hole or failed to keep an appointment. Facts are not the whole truth. But facts are facts and in this case the facts are few and simple. Prussia France and England had all promised not to invade Belgium. Prussia proposed to invade Belgium because it was the safest way of invading France. But Prussia promised that if she might break in through her own broken promise and ours she would break in and not steal. In other words we were offered at the same instant a promise of faith in the future and a proposal of perjury in the present. Those interested in human origins may refer to an old Victorian writer of English who in the last and most restrained of his historical essays wrote of Frederick the Great the founder of this unchanging Prussian policy. After describing how Frederick broke the guarantee he had signed on behalf of Maria Theresa he .

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