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cJVIETEOR_, VoL. II ~lAY, 1!118 No.3
A PLAY IN ONE ACT
FoREWORD.-"If e\'er wars are to be ended, the imagina- tion of man must end them. To the common mind, in spite of all its horrors, there is still something glorious in war. Preachers have preached against it in vain; economists ha,·e argued against its wastefulness in ,·ain. The imagina- tion of a great poet alone can finally show to the imagination of the world that e,·en the glories of war arc an empty delusion. Euripides shows us, as the center of his drama, 'The Trojan Women,' women battered and broken by in- concei,·able torture-the widowed Hecuba, Andromache with her child dashed to death, Cassandra ravished and made mad-yet docs he show that theirs arc the uncon- quered and unconquerable spirits." So to the present day, up through the Civil War, "·e find this same noble quality of irresistible determination and unconquerable spirit ani-
mating the women of America.
DR.U[A TIS PEU~OX""'E
The :Mother (:\Irs. Daniels).
The Son. Tom.
The Daughter. ~irginia.
J udgc Calhoun, a lifelong friend of :l.frs. Daniels. Robert Warwick, in love with Virginia.
TniE.-The present.
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