And all this, I repeat, occurred without any material necessity, from no other motive than a fine sense of honour and a magnificent surge of admirati… - Maurice Maeterlinck

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And all this, I repeat, occurred without any material necessity, from no other motive than a fine sense of honour and a magnificent surge of admiration and pity for a small foreign nation that was being unjustly martyred. We cannot repeat it too often: here, as in the case of the sacrifice which Belgium and England offered to the ideal of honour, is a new and unprecedented fact in history