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- Tall octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in stapled printed wraps, titled in black with a vignette of the statue of liberty on the front cover. The edges of the covers are slightly darkened with heavier staining to the bottom edge of the rear cover. 16 pages, including the covers. One leaf has been unevenly opened. Very good. The motto "Buy Liberty Bonds and Help End It!" is printed on the front cover.Issued at the time of the First World War, the pamphlet includes paragraph headings reading "More than one thousand separate atrocities now 'documented'", "The Catalogue of Crimes", "The Kaiser branded his people as 'Huns'", "The philosophy that produced cruelty", "The reflex influence of her philosophy upon her statesmen", "Brand of infamy on the German forehead", "German philosophy degrades German officers and soldiers", "German philosophy of militarism has debauched Germany's university professors", "Moral cowardice of scholars", "The Frenchman's love of France", "The devastated regions", "What hate can do", "Prince Eitel's crime", "The devastation of the French home", "A broken man", "The Ruin of Rheims cathedral", "Destruction of Rheims", "Louis Orr and Rheims", "France is tired", and "Vision of a just and lasting peace".The Congregationalist minister, philosopher and writer from Brooklyn Newell Dwight Hillis (1858-1929) was pastor of the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn and oversaw major renovations of the church.
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