Excerpt from In the War: Memoirs of V. VeresaevOf course, the war had not been provoked by Japan, and was incomprehensible on account of its useless ness; but what of that? If each small cell of the living body has its small, individual consciousness, it will not ask the question why the body has suddenly leaped up, why it makes an effort, why it struggles. The blood corpuscles will ow through the arteries, the muscular tissues will contract, each little cell will do its pre determined duty. But it is the business of the supreme brain to say what the struggle is for and where the blows are to fall. It is precisely this impression that Russia was making: she did not need the war, she did not understand it; but all her enormous organism was atremble with the mighty elation which had taken pos session of her.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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