Excerpt from A Belgian Mission to the Boers The lapse of time will reveal more clearly, in all its greatness, the part played by Belgium in the World War. The glorious part played by the King draws to itself the admiration of the world by its beauty of action and simple valour; and assures, by its quiet majesty, the permanence of regnant Belgium. The heroic struggles of our dear, valiant soldiers, of militant Belgium, from Liege to the Yser, repeat, in the pages of history, the epic combat of David against Goliath. The high-spirited attitude of suffering Belgium, indomitable beneath the German jack-boot, justifies the bold words of the Chief Minister of Broqueville at the outset of the invasion: "Vanquished, perhaps; subdued - never!" Cardinal Mercier and Burgomaster Max will ever remain typical examples of civic courage. The sublime and modest dignity of homeless Belgium, stimulates everywhere prodigies of generosity and a better comprehension - in England above all - of German culture and atrocity. Legions of Belgian refugees have given their sons as precious recruits to the army, and to munition factories, - a crowd of improvised workers, all the more eager to labour because their bourgeois hands were unskilled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.