Excerpt from Personalia

I have dedicated this rather retrospective little volume to Rupert and Alfred Brooke because the loss of them is curiously typical of all that the world has lost by the war. Neither of them could have tolerated a Prussian Europe, or, I hasten to add, a Prussianized England. Both would have lived as loyally as they died for all that they held dear. Yet at least one of their friends is not so much inclined as the world at large to acquiesce in their deaths as a means of edification. But for the prostration of certain politicians, past and present, before the Prussia they so ardently admired, Rupert and Alfred Brooke would have enriched the best life and thought of England for years to come. If a dozen politicians in Europe had exerted half the energy of the late Mr. Stead in bringing the war party of modern Germany to their senses, the world would not now be such a spectacle as to make many of us regret that our planet cannot be mercifully annihilated.

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