VALLEY OF THE SHADOW 169 CREDO 169 FRANCE 171 REVEILLE 173 FIRST THOUGHTS ON THIS WAR 175 THE HOPE OF LASTING PEACE 188 DIAGNOSIS OF THE ENGLISHMAN 194 OUR LITERATURE AND THE WAR 204 ART AND THE WAR 210 TRE CIME DI LAVAREDO 219 SECOND THOUGHTS ON THIS WAR 223 TOTALLY DISABLED 243 CARTOON 247 HARVEST 249 AND—AFTER? PRELUDE 255 FREEDOM AND PRIVILEGE 260 THE NATION AND TRAINING 266 HEALTH, HUMANITY, AND PROCEDURE 276 A LAST WORD 283 THE ISLANDS OF THE BLESSED 289 MUCH CRY—LITTLE WOOL ON THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS I FOR LOVE OF BEASTS (A Paper in the _Pall Mall Gazette_, 1912.) § 1. We had left my rooms, and were walking briskly down the street towards the river, when my friend stopped before the window of a small shop and said: “Gold-fish!” I[1] looked at him very doubtfully; one had known him so long that one never looked at him in any other way. “Can you imagine,” he went on, “how any sane person can find pleasure in the sight of those swift things swimming for ever and ever in a bowl about twice the length of their own tails?” “No,” I said, “I cannot—though, of course, they’re very pretty.” “That is, no doubt, the reason why they are kept in misery.” Again I looked at him; there is nothing in the world I distrust so much as irony. “People don’t think about these things,” I said.