NEWS OF THE WEEK.
fr HE body of an unnamed soldier taken from the battlefields .1 of France NW buried on Thursday in Westminster Abbey in the holiest spot of English ground. As this moving ceremony takes place when we write, we can do little more than refer to it. Enough to say that the great symbolical act of allowing an unidentified body to represent all the mighty inarticulate sacrifice of the nation is justified, because all people heartily understand it and approve of it. In a nation such as ours, where government is by the people and for the people, Carlyle's description of honest, ignorant men being turned into cannon-fodder, and being forced to fight against equally honest and ignorant men of other nations with whom they have no manner of quarrel because callous and cynical rulers on the two sides have purposely disagreed, reads like a grotesque imagery of the past. The last war, whatever a few carpus may say to the contrary, was fought in the full light of know. ledge and with the enthusiastic support of all good citizens— fought because it was felt by all that the evils of war would . be less than the evil of consenting to infamous wrong.
