In article <c0.1827d6f8.2e95d6f8@xxxxxxx>, GEVANS613@xxxxxxx writes
>Perhaps a more appropriate comment would have been the post-WWI Christmas
>poem written by the humanist novelist Thomas Hardy:
>
>"Peace upon earth!" was said. We sing it,
>And pay a million priests to bring it.
>After two thousand years of mass
>We've got as far as poison gas.
Hardy has been underrated as a poet (I note that here, as usual, he is
described as a novelist rather than poet.) But chemical and biological
weapons have been used for centuries. It is a myth that they are a
recent invention.
--
Philip Baker
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>Perhaps a more appropriate comment would have been the post-WWI Christmas
>poem written by the humanist novelist Thomas Hardy:
>
>"Peace upon earth!" was said. We sing it,
>And pay a million priests to bring it.
>After two thousand years of mass
>We've got as far as poison gas.
Hardy has been underrated as a poet (I note that here, as usual, he is
described as a novelist rather than poet.) But chemical and biological
weapons have been used for centuries. It is a myth that they are a
recent invention.
--
Philip Baker
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