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Excerpt from After the War What?: An Address by Stockton Axson, Professor of English, Rice Institute, Houston, Texas, at the Dinner and Reception Given by the University Club, San Francisco to the Summer Session Faculty of the University of California, July 13, 1917
Frankly, what I have to say is from the point of view of an idealist. Some will think that this is equivalent to a confession that. What I have to say is, on the face of it, impractical. But I profoundly believe that if the world is to be saved at all, it is to be savedby putting into practise some things which have long been called impractical. The world has been wrecked on the hard rocks of the practical it is time to patch up the old vessel and put to open sea, on the boundless, fathomless, untried waters of the ideal.
Concerning war in general, my own thoughts are precisely what they were four years ago - - that it is a dreadful thing, and a thing to be rendered unnecessary just as soon as possible. I do not know how you gentlemen feel about this particular war in which the world is now engaged, but I tell you quite frankly that I do not thrill over it at all. I see it as one numitigated tragedy.
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