Section 35All this time the country had been going to war. The hugemilitary machine was getting under way, the storm of public feelingwas rising. Congress had voted a hugeloan, a country-wide machineof propaganda was being organized, and the oratory of Four MinuteMen was echoing from Maine to California. Peter read the AmericanCity “Times” every morning, and here were speeches ofstatesmen and sermons of clergymen, herewere cartoons andeditorials, all burning with the fervor’s of patriotism.Peter absorbed these, and his soul became transfigured. HithertoPeter had been living for himself; but there comes a time in thelife of every man who can use his brain at all whenhe realizes thathe is not the one thing of importance in the universe, the one endto be served. Peter very often suffered from
