Excerpt from The Visions of Youth For the young men and women of to-day the tragic interest of the war must be almost exceeded by that of its issues and sequels. It will fall to them in the following years and decades to deal with these and with the problems which they will create. I am asked, as an observer from without, and, I trust, a hopeful and sympathetic observer, to say a few words about the spirit in which our younger folk will approach the matter, and will be affected by this portentous inroad and eruption of war into the midst of the world's peaceful and progressive life. It would never have occurred to me to do such a thing if I had not been asked. The young might more naturally speak for themselves. But one man's thoughts may set others thinking; and I proceed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.