Rushing her innumerable victorious armies over Belgian trodden soil, she _hurled_ herself at France with the ultimate design to _hurl_ herself at England. That in so doing, Germany was _raging_ with a _foolish_ thirst of _destruction, of revenge and hatred_, is certainly true. But Mr. Bourassa's guilt is in his assertion that the victims of Germany's _sanguinary fury_ were actuated by the same criminal motives in heroically defending their homes, their wives, their children, their all, against the barbarians once more bursting out of Central Europe, this time bent on overthrowing human freedom. Is the respectable citizen who bravely defends himself against the ruffian who _hurls_ himself at his throat, to be compared with his murderous assailant? But England was not alone in _hurling_ herself at Germany, as Mr. Bourassa so cordially says. Without a word, even a sign, by the only momentum of her _furious outburst of foolish destruction_, she was followed by the whole of her Empire. How much we, Canadians, were, for instance, deluded, the Nationalist leader is kind enough to tell us in his ever sweet language. When the Parliament of Ottawa unanimously decided that it was the duty of the British Dominion of Canada to participate in the war; when Canadian public opinion throughout the length and breadth of the land, almost unanimously approved of this loyal and patriotic decision, we, poor unfortunate Canadians, thought that we were heartily and nobly joining with the mother-country to avenge "OUTRAGED JUSTICE," to rush to the rescue of violated Belgium, of France, once more threatened with agony under the brutal Teutonic ironed heels, of the whole world--Mr. Bourassa's commanding personality included--menaced with the HUNS' DOMINATION. How sadly mistaken we were, Mr. Bourassa tells us. According to this infallible judge of the righteousness or criminality of historical events, we were labouring under a paroxysm of passion--_of a rage of foolish destruction, of vengeance and hatred_. Once overpowered by this vituperative mood of calumnious accusations, the Nationalist leader slashes England, as follows,--page 18--:-- "_England has violently destroyed more national rights than all the other European countries united together. By force or deceit, she has swallowed up a fourth of the earthly globe; by conquest, and more especially by corruption and the purchase of consciences, she has subjugated more peoples than there were, in the whole human history, ever brought under the same sceptre._" Thus, in Mr. Bourassa's impartial estimation, the depredations and slaughters of the hordes commanded by Attila, the savagery of the Turks of old and present days, the crimes of Germany in this great war, are only insignificant trifles compared with the horrors of British history. Shame on such outrageous misrepresentation of historical truth.