But do not speak that way about two sacred principles." "You speak like everybody else," said the young man bitterly.

"We must go to the root of the evil, you know we must.

/You/ certainly do." And he added violently, "Why do you act as if you did not know it?
If we wish to cure ourselves of oppression and war, we have a right to attack them by all the means possible--all!--the principle of inheritance and the cult of the fatherland." "No, we haven't the right," exclaimed the old man, who had risen in great agitation and threw a look at his interlocutor that was hard, almost savage.
"We have the right!" cried the other.
All at once, the grey head drooped, and the old man said in a low voice: "Yes, it is true, we have the right.

I remember one day during the war.

We were standing beside a dying man.