Page:The Way of the Cross, Doroshevich, tr. Graham, 1916.djvu/171

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XII

HOW THE RIVER FLOWS

IN the overwhelmed, over frightened, trembling little towns and villages—they will tell you:

—There is no order whatever! No system, no plan.

That is not so.

That is how it seems in an immense war.

At each separate point it is difficult to catch the general plan.

And only if you make the whole journey of "The Way of the Cross" will you see that here is both plan and system.

Even an iron system.

The general principle is that:

—The railways being so overburdened,

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