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DEMOCRATIC IDEALS AND REALITY
tive and secure, is the one thing essential to which all things else have been added. We are told that we should thank God daily for
Fig. 11.—The English Plain, a fertile sea-base.
our Channel, but as I looked out over the glorious harvest of this English plain in this critical year 1918, it seemed to me that our thanksgiving as a seafaring people should be
