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humanity which has taught only how much more loveable, honourable, kind, clean and altogether worthy all animals are than men, the pictures of a soldiers life and an armies doings may have a pleasing and fascinating glamour quite free from those hurts of outrageous insults to intelligence which are ever present in the sensitive mind of one who is a living and breathing unit of that which such pictures in part are intended to portray.

And now knowing that the picture can be such a pleasant half-liar, inasmuch as it is of art – giving least of all the [indecipherable] of vulgar fractions – let us keep to pictures, even at the expense of being a little lacking in human interest

You could understand me

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