That change was too great for any mind but the omniscient to grasp in its entirety.

War had killed in some soldiers a belief in Christ: in others it had created one.

War had unleashed the old hidden primitive instincts of manhood: likewise it had fired hearts to hate of hate and love of love, to the supreme ideal consciousness could conceive.

War had brought out the monstrous in men and as well the godlike.

Some soldiers had become cowards; others, heroes.