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He had bought all the evening papers, and had read and re-read them
and turned up maps and worried over strategic problems for which he
had no data at all--as every one did at that time--before he was
able to go on with Benham's manuscripts.
These pacific reassurances seemed to White's war-troubled mind like
finding a flattened and faded flower, a girl's love token, between
the pages of some torn and scorched and blood-stained book picked
out from a heap of loot after rapine and murder had had their
fill. . . .
"How can we ever begin over again?" said White, and sat for a long
time staring gloomily into the fire, forgetting forgetting,
forgetting too that men who are tired and weary die, and that new
men are born to succeed them. . . .
"We have to begin over again," said White at last, and took up
Benham's papers where he had laid them down. . . .
9
One considerable section of Benham's treatment of the Fourth
Limitation was devoted to what he called the Prejudices of Social
Position. This section alone was manifestly expanding into a large
treatise upon the psychology of economic organization.
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