Gilberto Humphrey

History

15 November, 14:47

In this excerpt, the author writes about a scene in a war hospital. Read the excerpt and then answer the questions: A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, one single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought when such things are possible. It must all be lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is. Look again at the last sentence of the excerpt. In your own words, explain briefly what you think this sentence means.