Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — The Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Difference.

A little boy, who in the course of some conversation of his elders, heard a good deal of talk about the progress of civilization, approached his grandfather, who was taking no part in the talk. “Grandpa,” said the child, “what Is the difference between civilization and barbarism ?’ r “Barbarism, my boy,” answered the old man, “Is killing your enemy with a hatchet at a distance of a step, and civilization Is killing him with a bombshell twelve miles away!” This cynical answer applies well enough, without doubt, to the difference between civilized warfare and that of a period whqn the world was less advanced than now; but the completest civilization looks toward the abolition of warfare forever. The most densely settled State is Rhode Island, and the second Massachusetts. The former has 918.44 inhabitants to the square mile, and the latter 278.48. ’■“*