For the Right
Essays and Addresses (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from For the Right: Essays and Addresses<br><br>After the first outburst of enthusiasm there was special difficulty, in Great Britain, in maintaining keenness for the war. Our homelands were not invaded, and after the first few weeks there was little chance that they ever would be. It was, therefore, actually harder for the mass of the British people than it was for Frenchmen or Russians to feel to the full the necessity for fighting. Moreover, the strict censorship which at the commencement of the war drew a veil over the doing of our fleets and armies inevitably damped down all the first fresh enthusiasm. When men could neither see nor know what was going on their interest was bound to flag.<br><br>Yet, as through the darkness a few stupendous facts came looming up, the true inner meaning and significance of the issues at stake became gradually more apparent to those who were carefully watching the course of the war.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.