Life, 1902-06-19 · page 5 of 20
Life — June 19, 1902 — page 5: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 525 The main illustration depicts a statue intended for Havana, Cuba, commemorating the 57th Congress. The caricatured figure appears to be a political leader (likely American) in an exaggerated, unflattering pose suggesting hubris or imperialism. The "War" section critiques military recruitment and the transformation of civilians into soldiers. It argues that raw recruits must suppress their natural gentleness to become effective warriors—a commentary on the moral cost of militarization. The "Antinomous" piece satirizes religious hypocrisy, specifically the Archbishop of Canterbury's objections to ceremonial elements at King Edward VII's coronation, questioning theological consistency about divine omnipotence. The page exemplifies *Life* magazine's satirical approach to turn-of-century American imperialism, militarism, and institutional contradictions through both visual caricature and philosophical argument.
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*LIFE« Little New Love. H, little new Love, come take my hand, There's a white moon over the Oh, little new Love, I've a word to say ‘That's as tender as word may Jets be, And I know a way where the roses sway And a path where there's none to see. “But how do you know the way we 02" Said littlenew Love tome. And a tale to repeat that is old and sweet And as true as eternity. “But why do you tell the tale so well?” Said little new Love to me. Oh, little new Love, when Spring is fair t of aman beats high, y learn in her own sweet turn The sceret of “how” and ‘“ why, dust must stay over yesterday, To little new Love said I. Theodosia Garrison. Antinomous, (THE Archbishop of Canterbury, though much be- sought, flatly refuses to curtail the religious of King But ceremonial incidental to the coronation Edward VII. ‘We shall weary the Almighty with our supplications!” protested Lord Brougham, when the then Primate took a like stand on the occasion of the coronation of King William IV. This gives rise to a rather nice question of scholastic theology. If the Almighty is omnipresent, He will necessarily be at the coronation, But how does such limitation of natural choice comport with the divine attribute of omnipotence? War. ‘0 believe that soldiers recruited from @ good-natured, Kindly people like us can be as cruel as savages {s indeed hard, unti) we reflect what war ts, The diMculty dwindles as we view war less in the glorious abstract ‘and more tn the hideous concrete, War being bell, warrlors have to be demons as a matter of technique. Human sensibilities handicap a soldier, It does not take the raw recruit long to dis- cover that if he ts ever to achleve success at the business of war, he has got to forget how to be gentle, and kind, and manly ; that tt {s precisely as he forgets that he ceases to be the raw recrult and becomes the seasoned veteran, It isa soldier's duty to thrust bia bayonet through the fellow. Wy STATUE TO BE PLACED IN THE CITY OP HAVANA BY GRATEFUL CUBANS IN COMMEMORATION OP THE PIPTY-SEVENTH CONORESS. man he meets wearing uniform of a different color from his own, provided they meet on ground which their oficers have marked off and called a fleld of battle. When a soldier has learned to do this with- “SAKES ALIVE, CHILDREN! WHAT ARE YOU FIOHTING anovt?" “HE HAS BEEN SNUBBING ME BECAUSE I'M AX INCUBATOR curcken!" out a qualm, think you he will be likely to stop at anything because {t {s cruel? [HE devil can always make room for one more. comicbooks.com