Excerpt from The Inter-Allied Conference on the After-Care of Disabled Men: Second Annual Meeting, Held in London, May 20th to 25th, 1918

The Angel of Peace, watching the slow folding back of this darkness, will look on an earth of cripples. The field of the world is strewn with half-living men. That loveliness which is the creation of the aesthetic human spirit, that ¿owering of directed energy which we know as civilisation, that manifold and mutual service which we call progress - all stand mutilated and faltering. As though, on a pilgrimage to the dreamed-of Mecca, water had failed, and by the wayside countless muffled forms sat waiting for rain so will the long road Of mankind look to-morrow.

In every township and village Of our countries stricken heroes of the war will dwell for the next half-century. The figure of Youth must go one-footed, one-armed, blind of an eye, lesioned and stunned, in the home where it once danced. The half Of a generation can never again step into the sunlight of full health and the priceless freedom of unharmed limbs.

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