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I was asked the other day to send to a new magazine a statement as to the event
of the war which had made the deepest impression on me. Without hesitation I selected
the remarkable Christmas demonstrations in Flanders. Here were men who for weeks
and months past had been engaged in the task of stalking cach other and killing cach
other, and suddenly under the influence of a common memory, they repudiate the whole
gospel of war and declare the gospel of brotherhood. Next day they began killing each
other again as the obedient instruments of governments they do not control and of
motives they do not understand. But the fact remains. It is a beam of light in the
darkness, rich in meaning and hope.
But if I were asked to name the instance of individual action which had most
impressed me I should find the task more difficult. Should I select something that shows
how war depraves, or something that shows how it ennobles? If the latter I think I would
choose that beautiful incident of the sailor on the Formidable.
He had won by ballot a place in one of the boats. The ship was going down, but
he was to be saved. One pictures the scene: The boat is waiting to take him to the shore
and safety. He looks at the old comrades who have lost in the ballot and who stand there
doomed to death. He feels the passion for life surging within him. He sees the cold, dark
sea waiting to engulf its victims. And in that great moment--the greatest moment that
can come to any man--he makes the triumphant choice. He turns to one of his comrades.
"You've got parents," he says. "I haven't." And with that word--so heroic in its
simplicity--he makes the other take his place in the boat and signs his own death
warrant.
The merit of this sailor's heroism was that it was done with calculation--in cold
blood, as it were, with that "two-o'clock-in-the-morning courage" of which Napoleon
spoke as the real thing. The merit of his deed is that it was an act of physical courage
based on the higher quality of moral courage.
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The true hero is he who unites the two qualities, ... The act of the sailor of the
Formidable was a much bigger thing. Here was no thrill of gallantry and no sporting
risk. He dealt in cold certainties: the boat and safety; the ship and death; his life or the
other's. And he thought of his comrade's old parents at home and chose death. It was a
great end. I wonder whether you or I would be capable of it. I would give much to feel​

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