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War gripped the world as a chronic state wherein people ceased to realize any other kind of existence, and were devoid of any other pre-occupation.
Then suddenly the slaughter ceased. The word _armistice_ took the place of the word _war_. Brutalized and exhausted peoples, destitute of leaders of vision or followers of faith, groped in a limbo of shattered ideals and discredited philosophies. Nevertheless the welcome home celebrations were flattering to the survivors, and a relief to the spiritual lesions of the non-combatants who organized them.