III.  The Religious Revival
IV.  The Riddle of the British
V.  The Social Changes in Progress
VI.  The Ending of the War 

THE PASSING OF THE EFFIGY 

1 

One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the
Tour of the Front.  After some months of suppressed information--
in which even the war correspondent was discouraged to the point
of elimination--it was discovered on both sides that this was a
struggle in which Opinion was playing a larger and more important
part than it had ever done before.  This wild spreading weed was
perhaps of decisive importance; the Germans at any rate were
attempting to make it a cultivated flower.  There was Opinion
flowering away at home, feeding rankly on rumour; Opinion in
neutral countries; Opinion getting into great tangles of
misunderstanding and incorrect valuation between the Allies.  The