But if this is the moral lesson that is to
be perpetuated throughout the generations, and if it be admitted that the teaching of such a lesson in stone is not only desirable butlikely to be effectual, was the story of Mies Cavell the most wisely chosen subject? The execution of that splendid, devoted, and inexpressibly brava woman, disgrace- ful and terrible though it was was carried out within the borders of the. German Military Code. There were, however, irmumerable acts perpetrated by the Germans which were far outside the borders not only of German law but of the law and custom of all civilized, or even semi-civilized, people. It might be contended that for the perpetual moral lesson some one of them would have been a more appropriate subject. We ought not, in any case, to have been without a statue to the undying memory of Mire Cavell.
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